PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 39, 14 February 1874, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

a ~ ■■■;, ■; Bluff, Febroary 14. Tbja.'O.tago, Captain M'Lean, arrived at tea a.m. to-day. She left Melbourne at four p.m. on the Btb, and brings the Englieh mail, 63 saloon and 31 steerage passengers* and 403 tons of cargo for all portß. She sails for Dunedin at fouripim. She brings no later English new'B.^, : ! - Dunedin, February 1.4. Th f e Mongol brings 324 passengers. Those for Otago will be placed on Quarantine Island and fumigated. The Bhip-Will 1 then be fumigated and the cargo!putjnto lighters. The fault of the disease lies with the homo clearing officer^ Thirteen cases of fever were sent' otit of the depot at Plymouth the day ljbe|pre; the Mongol's - passengers cameibttihoarcl, and the day after they wera^'ihipped two families were sent aehoj;<j ;T be jng ill and weak from the effects, of fever. Four cases are now under treatment. : Eighty-one adults are for Otago, 71 for B^te^on, 91 for Wellington, and 71 for 'Auckland. *>$ Cbristchurcfa, February 13. Royse, Stead, and Co. report wheat easier since latest Australian telegrams, 4s 4d far- 6s 6J now offered; oats are coming- forward, but prices are very uncertain; barley, fair supply at 4a to 4a 6d; butter, scarce at 8;i; haoia and bacQn7.99|d« ; [Faoii a Correspondent.] Reefton, February 13. Mr Xvess held a very successful meetiDg here last evening. A cordial vote of thanks; Was passed unanimously. The Inglewood claim have struck goldetiL stone five feet wide.