LAUNCESTON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 50, 27 February 1872, Page 2

LAUNCESTON.

Wheat is selling at 4s. 6d., and it is said that there are large orders for shipment for England.

The Home News recommends the making of condensed milk as a promising industry, and states lhat the market ior it at home is constant and constantly increasing. It is rumored that Port William is considered the best site for a special settlement, by ihe Superintendent of Oiago and those members of Executive who accompanied him ou his recent visit to Stewart's Island. Signor .Cagli. of the Opera Company, was invited to give a benefit for sufferers by bush iirea in tho neighborhood of Dunedin. As the company was leaving, he could not do so, but forwarded a donation of ten guineas, aud seven guineas for the Benevolent Asylum. The convalesence of the Prince of Wales was aunounced from the sfcasje of Dunedin Theatre, on tho arrival of tho English mail, and was rectnvel with great cheers. Tha baud played the National Anthem and the large audience rose en masse. Among the "delicacies of the season" provided at the Club Hotel for the Superintendent and friends, when they arrived in Invercargitl, was a three-year old brown trout, weighing between two and a-half and three pounds, taken from the Acclimatisation Society's pond at the Makarowa. The great operatic event to which New Zealand has to look forward, says a Melbourne exchange, is the appearance of Sigaora Enrichetta Bosisio, who is to arrive under engagement to Messrs. Lyster and Cagli, by tlie May mail steamer from Calcutta, where she is stated to have created a profound sensation as a vocalist.