PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 277, 21 November 1872, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

. .: Bluff, November 20. t The Rangitoto, Captain Mackie, _ left Melbourne at 6 p.m. on the 14th, and arrived at six o'clock this morning. She experienced a heavy. S.S.W. gale and terrific sea which lasted until the 18th. Shesailsfor Dunedin aUp m. to r morrow. She brings 20 saloon, and 50 steerage passengers, and 332 tons of cargo for all ports. ■: . .•■■ I WBr.LXNGTON, ; Npyember2'. The report arrived, at after enquiry into the mortalily amone "the children, oii the passage of the ship Bebington,irom London; to Wellington, was.that it was owing to ; bad ventilation, and the bad quality and insufficient quantity of the food.^ : Mr Seed proceeds to Auckland with new books , and forms for the Custpms, ,and "macWaes, &c, for the telegraph. „v ;.,,,-; , . ;,, Taan The body ot a man named ; Murdoch McLean was found r ia a creek to-day, with ia lump' of stone tied roundWs nepk byapieceoffiax:. An inquest will be held .this afternoon. .'..,.;, . Grbymoutk, Kovember 21. Six hundred ounces of gold^iave^bee'n* brought down by the Ajax Company. The 'directors declare a dividend of £2500. ; -_•'•■ ';•«; ; -„.....-,.,,.■ „..>.. .^yißC^ciLL^oven^ber 21. Mrs Whitting, for whom the plea of insanity W fls r set| T up, has, been.&und guUty. ; ofj the murder 'of her children, and. sentenced to death. Donal'd'Mb'rnson, 'for killing a man at Benmore, in July last, has' been found guilty of manslaughter. 1 .-.:>l;:'' ; r'Ws.-*-!£{> „ . ■ „.. Auckland, November 21. .-! vMr^Sanderfl reports:— Caledonians^ l!s 10s ; Alburnws^ £4 :ss;.:Carep,,3H;j. Thames Gas, 28s; r South British, 35b. " ' .!■-.