PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 186, 4 August 1873, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

Wellington, August 2. |§.Mr Vogel stated that the total cost of a cable from Singapore to New ''••^jealand would be £1,000,000. -- Tha^abl^b^ween New Zealand and Aj^&u^ \^ild cost £100,000. >T The local ealculati<fc on tariff shows the increase will amount .to s^yenty per cent. The committee on the National Bank Bill will report on Tuesday that the bill must be regarded es an opposed bill. The question of change of title can therefore be brought before the Legislative Council. Plimmer and Reeves quote flour from £13 10s to £13 15s, in sacks; 10s to 15a extra in assorted bags. Wheat, from 4s 3d to 5s 9d ; oats 5s 3d to 5s 9d. Greytown, August 2. The natives are claiming the ownership of a block of land, and make an armed resistance to a writ of ejectment. Auckland, August 2. Mr. Binney reports J3amaru flour £14, Dunedin £14 10s, Canterbury £13 10s, Oamaru wheat 6s 3d, Canterbury from 6s to 6s 3d. Caledonians £25 ; Tookey's have risen 10s. Auckland, August 4* The Hero hae arrived to-day. She left Sydney on July 28th. Tho Auckland portion of the Suez maii has gone to the Bluff. August 2. The Chamber of Commerce telegraph to the Anglo-Agency that they oppose the new tariff. Wellington, August 4. Messrs McMeckan & Blackwood offer to establish a mail service to and from Melbourne and New Zealand, landing and receiving the mails at Hokitika, Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Porfc Chalmers, up and down for a period of three years, for £6,500 a-year. Time to be occupied as follows: — Wellington, via Hokitika and Nelson, nine days, Lyttelton, ditto, eleven days, Port Chalmers, twelve days, from the arrival of the P. and O. Company's steamer at Hobson's Bay.