Taranaki Herald Ofßoe,

Taranaki Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 971, 30 March 1870, Page 2

Taranaki Herald Ofßoe,

Taesday, March 29, 1870. On Monday last we received onr portion of the English mail, which gives intelligence from England via Suez to 28th January, and by telegram vid Galle to 16th February. Our mail has therefore been exactly fifty-six days or two calendar months in transit, and by telegram we are brought within forty-one days' communication with London. The opening of the route vid California, however, will reduce the time of the delivery of our mail to forty-one days, and we shall have news from England, by the Atlantio cable, within twenty-six days.

Mrs. Yems (for whom Mr. Bennett acted) held a sale of cattle and sheep on Wednesday last, which realised the following prices : — Cows, £3, £4 2s. 6d., £5, £4 2s. 6d., £5 55., £4, £5 55., £4 7s. 6d., £11 ; steers, £4 10s., £4 2s. 6d., £5 2s. 6d., £5 55., £4, £5, £o, £5 2s. 6d., £5; heifers, £4 12s. 6d., £4, £5, £4 17s. 6d., £5, £4 17s. 6d., £5 10s. £5 55., £5, £5 55., £4 7s. 6d., £4 10s., £4 17s. 6d., £4 10s., £5 2s. 6d., £4 10s., £os., £7, £7 10s. ; sheep, 14s. 9d ; rams, £2, £l 10s., £1 10s.

Amongst the produce shipped for the Southern ports, we notice three sacks of flax seed. This is a new article of export, and is well worthy of record, being the first that has been sent from this Province.

This season there have been 235 bales of wool shipped from this port, being 75,445 lbs., which may be estimated to be worth about £3,000.

The New Zealand flax shipped from this port since the first mill was started, amounts to 72 tons 3 owt., and about the same quantity i 3 now on hand ready for sending away.

The following is a return of stock and produce shipped since the beginning of the year :—

Wool 106 bales 23,584 ft. Flax 65 tons 2£ owfc. Tow 13 „ 16} owt. Leather 1,114 ft. Hides 173 Sheepskins 579 Batter 15,138 ft. Potatoes 4 tons Eggs 115 doz. Cheese 1,720 ft. Bacon 17J cwt. Grass seed 29 sacks Flax seed 3 „ Cattle . 85 head Sheep 1 ,064 head Pigs 24 Horses 32 The following is a tabular form of the quantity and value of the flax exported from the varions ports of the Colony daring the quarter ending December 31, 1869, calculated from a late New Zealand Gazette . — Tons. Total value. Average value per ton £ £ s. d. Auckland ... 305} 8,822) „„ 1Q „ TaranaU ... 7i 217] 28 19 6 Lyttelton ... 300 6,078 28 0 0 Wellington ... 29 592 20 8 S Wanganni ... 14} 361 24 18 0 Dnnedin ... 16| 358 21 1 2 Nelson ... 2 42 21 0 0 674} £16,470 £24 8 6