PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 55, 5 March 1874, Page 2

PROVINCIAL.

Auckland, March 5. -"■' <: Mi 1 AJex. Saunders reports buyers ot Bank h\ pfNew Zealand shares at £17 2s 6d; National ;Bnnk,; 645; National Insurance, 245 ; Union Beacbi l3a 6<J. Sellers! South British, 458. "J'; '"' : " . March 4. ' , „Tho; M ongol abandons her voyage to.Hong.kong.__Bhe wUt' return to Otago, and take ;._,. out, the English American mails. The •jj u \<fJypbjen?e courejji"*; tnem ttom Syflney. ' .- : ,3 ' '.' ' March 5.; At the races to-day the weather was ''•'- : Sir jirtnes and Lady Ferguason and suite were present. - "■*'■'••'• ' '";. Miidkn I'la^tb: Castaway Tommy Po3d Vcriaiche^: " ; start < effected- between „ . Magnet and. Nut with: former won rules no .raw. Mischief,, Stee^ Tr«p went - t . , away, '/.'Delusion won eaay, Mischief ,B, good^ ;:«i second. ... . nt , -. ' ... Wkllington Cup: C^8 v away, . Delusion, ' t : l»o<iliftirar, Hfatred, Batter, won in same in order good : race. • ' - .. POKT CIIAtMBHS, March 5. ' The ship Scimitar has arrived with 430 souls on board, having made the passage from Plymouth in 70 days. She is placed.in quarantine as there* are six cases of scarlet fever on board. ...There have : been twenty-siz deaths, mostly from . six months to five . years : of " age., ■••; Two famiiies were put ashore ; for fever "before the eh.jp. left.,; ;.>:■.,:' . : ;