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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 984, 4 April 1871, Page 2

The London Scotsman newspaper is dead. New Zealand wheat has been selling in the Rotterdam market at from 45s to 57s per quarter. A Sydney paper states that delicious pineapples are now being sold in cartloads in the streets of Sydney at from Is to 2s per dozen. Capt. William Griffin Stack, of the New Zealand Militia, has been appointed Instructor of Musketry to the Armed Constabulary, with the relative rank of Inspector. A fjrear. quantity of grain in the northern part of Canterbury is reported, to be damaged by the late weather; indeed, in many instances at least 30 per cent, is said to have been destroyed. iEgles, in the Australasian, states that in order to meet the times, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s directors have graciously reduced the rate of passage-money by one-third. The drop from £125 to £BS will probably be found to -signify, when fuller information is received, thai the ad libitum wine allowance has also been dropped. The competition of the Californian lines, and the prospect of more steamers of the Queen of the Than es class, have probably awakened the company to the risk they run of further diverting passenger trade from ihis line. We (Evening Post) have been favored by the Postmaster-General with the following information regarding the supposed destruction of a portion of the late San Francisco Mail : —The only mails received via San Francisco this month were two from London and two from Dublin for the whole of New Zealand, comprising 190 bags, and of these thirty bags were despatched from London in December, but arrived at San Francisco too late foi transmission by that month's steamer, the City of Melbourne. The mails received for November were—Three from London, three from Dublin, and three from. Liverpool, comprised in 240 bags. For December —Two mails from London, two from Liverpool, and two from Dublin, contained in 289 bags, to which should be added the 30 bags received this month. The average number of mails received each month is eight or nine, contained in from 230 to 300 bags, so that there appears to be six or *even mails (between 80 and 100 bag«() missing. The best way to ohtain the correct weight of fish is to weigh them in their own scales,