PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 20, 23 January 1874, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

Dunedin, January 23. The Captain of the Surat has been brought up(and remanded till Saturday. Bail was admitted, himself in jE3OO, and two sureties in •*g.so:each. r ,,'4_ie,City Council propose to purchase the .University Building for a Town Hall. It is : said that it will be the handsomest building in the colony. f The meeting of Maoris at the Heads takes pltfce to-day in reference to their claim upon •tite government for three millions for the Middle Island. An action for libel against the * Evening Star ' is set down for hearing in the Supreme .Court to-morrow. '•'"' " Christchurch, January 23. The Premier has arrived irom Dunedin, and is a guest of Mr Studholme's. At a meeting of the Provisional Directors of -the. Woollen Manufactory Company held yesterday, it was resolved that the capital be •650,000, in £5 shares. The Company 'premises to be a success. Lyttelton, January 23. The Cardigan Castle sails to-morrow for London, with a cargo of wool, flour, wheat, and tallow, valued at £97,800. She also takes 11 passengers, including Captain Gibson, the Port officer, Wellington, January 23. ; Mr O'Shea reports flour, Oamaru, in sacks, ■•£l3 10s to £14; Canterbury, £13 to £13 lOf. Oats, old, good feeding, 4s 6s per bu_hel; bian, Is 2d to ls 4d per bußhel; pollard, ls 3d to Is sd; wheat, 4s to 4s 9d; maize, 4s 6d to ss; (.oatmeal, 26s per cwt; pearl barley, 30s iper "'cwt;' eggs, Is 6d; butter and cheese, 8d; potatoes, os; fowls, 5s a couple; turkeys, 5s to 7s, each; geese, 4s 6d each. , 'i New Plymouth, January 23. '" The libel case, Atkinson and Bayly against Whitcome resulted in the committal of the defendant. Four attempts were made to compromise the affair but the defendent refused an apology, at the same time acknowledging that the imputations of dishonest conduct in the squib were made merely in the excitement over . the Superintendency election. The defendant conducted hie own case. Bail, was accepted, himself in £100, and two sureties ein -£50 each, Auckland, January 23. The shipwrights have struck for 12s a day for old work, and intend striking for lis for new work oh Monday. '"'The Turkish Baths Company has been successfully floated. The buildings are shortly fo be erected at' Onehunga. Mr Bucklaud reports fat cattle in excess of requirements at a lower value; dairy cows, £5-108 to £8; calves, 27s to 425; fat cattle, 22s to 28s per lOOlbs; fat sheep, 3£_ to 3_d; lambs, 14a io 225. Alexandra , January 23. It is reported at Kuitithat the Ngatihauas have sold the block of land at Maungatautari. _?urukiitu swears vengeance against the sellers. Takerei has gone to Cambridge to see if the report be true. Greymouth, January 23, _ "' "■ Charles Sommprs, a bookseller, was yeeter- * -day -fined £24 and costs, and certain goods vanied at £30 were confiscated, for passing an entry of a case without declaring to a gross of playing cards contained therein.