LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 247, 17 October 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROVINCIAL. Westport. Saturday. There was a preliminary inquiry by the Collector of Customs yesterday re the Alma disaster. Tbe captain of the steamer Kennedy claims Mirage. Tbe Alma will be towed to Greymouth to discharge and be repaired, . Bluw, Friday. '■ -The American steamer Swatira arrived thu morning. She left Hob rt Town on the lOib instant. .- She has a crew of 210 men, and the scientific party. She sails to-morrow for the Chatham Islands to land tbe party. She. brings two days later English and Australian news. Am KLASD, Saturday. At the meeting of the South British Insurance Company the report was adopted, and .Messrs Chamberlain and Howard were n.--sjcied Directors. Arrived.— S-hip Zealacdia from London, with 300 immigrants. There was no sickness ©cr bo-id. Napier, Saturday. (The Raogatira was obliged to put back here, short of cqals and pro virions, afttr being five days in endeavoring to reach Wellington, and meeting a continuance of bad weather. Chrmtchorch, Saturday. Market quotations f.o.b. at Lyttelton are ajj_follows:— Whtat, 5s fid; oats, 5s 6d lo 5s 9d; barley, nominal; fiour, £12 l Os to £13; bran, £6 5s ; pollard, £6 ; sharps, £7 ; cheese, 8d; grass seed, 5s 6d; potatoes, £10 Wheat and oats are almost unobtainable in. Christchnrch, j '*" : Hoxitika, Saturday. Meat of all kinds is atf f -mine pricer. At the last auction pale here bollocks realised £33 per carcase, or 55s k 70s per luolbs b'cveral of the butchers tare closing their places of business l empirarily, being unable to^obtiin supplies for their enstomers.