PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 38, 13 February 1874, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

Bk , Wellington, Feb. 13. The total imports into the Colony for the quarter ended 31st December* were i £1,784,605, and for the corresponding ...perioJHft.lß72, £1,498,193. Tb"«; 'comparative value-, ef imports into thSftblony for 1872 was £5,142,951, and foijlas^ y.ear £6,462,981. The exports\from :tbei colony for 1872 were £5,190,665% and for laßt year £5,610,371. Ttferjbfice captured George Maurice Druqi-mondj the absconding manager of the Provincial and Suburban Bank at Bicbmond, Melbourne, on board the Mikado yesterday afternoon en route tor San Francisco. The Premier was a passenger by the Mikado yesterday for Auckland. N.a members met in Parliament yesterdays J /; ..;.; j. ■■... Westport, Feb. 12. Atthe sale of town sections to-day, double' the upset priceß were realised, the amounts paid ranging fron. £25 to £111. V """7". Dunedin, February 13. At,, a meeting bf the. subscribers of the iAthenaaufn, after a long discussion it tfas.resolypd, by 252 to 242, to open the riding-room four hours on Sunday afternoons. The whole matter will now be left to the committee, and it is thought ■ that in the face of such a small maj^ii^, J ' they will not give effect to the resolution. A' deputation has waited upon the Superintendent to ask him to undertake on behalf of the Provincial Government the cost of an appeal to the Supreme v Codrt from the decision of the Licensing .Bench in.the Richmond case. His Honor . expressed supriae at the action taken in the matter. The Provincial ordinance being iiiU in force, and not having been • repealed , t^e Government had no power ;." to enter t din the application. Sullivan, the Nelson murderer, who turned Queen's evidence, is on board the' Mikado. He is pardoned by the Government,- and is to te landed in California. \ Chalmers, February 13. Arrived ; steamer Mongol, 49£ days from' land to land. She is in quarantine, 16 deaths having occurred on the voyage. There were 67 cases and four deaths from measles; 21 cases and five ' deaths from scarlet fever, and 8 cases and five deaths from bronchitis; one. death from diarrhoea, one from inantition, one from sunstroke, and one from ulcer; all the cases of measles havo how ceased. The diseases have been' confined to one compartment amongst; married people. They broke out.vshortly after leaving England. Tbe-.ii-gle men and women are quite free, df disease. She brings a mail for Wellington only, which has been taken out and fumigated. She has only 12 passengers for Dunedin, the rest being for Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland.; ;,;, .' '. •;"'.. ••ii: ■/•' Grabamstown,February 13. The Bailway Committee bas appointed : a subcommittee tp procure data to lay 7 before the Premier . to induce him to place the Thames Valley line upon the next schedule. A. movement has been organised to endeavor to obtain Government assist- . ance, towards the expense of deep drainage at the mines. Auckland, February 13. The Superintendent has returned fromPpverty Bay, and will proceed to Botoroa at the request of the natives. Mr Alex. Saunders reports sellers So]M,_j : British scares at 445; National Inßu'rance, 22s Sdj./Sons. of Freedom, a£Q iOs.„;ißi_yers : National Insurance, . 22ijJQdi South British, 455; Cale-donians,'-£ll Sa*

The Phcebe has arri*e<_3 Sho left Sydney on the 7tbj Aiid brings 13 passengers for South.