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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 283, 30 November 1874, Page 2

We (G. JJ. Argus) learn that Mr Carruthers Engineer-in-Chief, is detained at Wesiport chiefly in consequence of the contractors for the first part of the Westport and Mount liochfort railway having not performed hia work to his satisfaction. It is considered provable that most of the work already completed will haye to be reconstructed. Cremation was resorted to the other day at Eeefton to get rid of the carcase of a horse that got killed on the Murray Creek tramway. Mr Val Vose, the well-known ventriloquist, gave an entertainment a few nights ago to the inmates of the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum . A huudred and twenty of the patients were present, and were highly entertained. " Potatoes " are " potatoes " now in price if not in quality; and it ia fortunate that the young crop begins to come into the market, for it would seem that it cannot depend any longer on the Hobarton market, from which considerable supplies have been derived, and to which the barque Malay was sent for another cargo some weeks ago. From the latest journals to band from that city, we see that prime camp ea had risen to £7 10s and JEB per ton.— N. Z Times. An Fnglish trout has been taken in the river Wairoa, in the Province of Auckland, that measured 17J inches in length, and 17 inches in girth. The fibre of a wild Fijian native plant was i Jately cleaned and prepared for the market by Mr Drew, of Levuka, who shipped it for London experimt ntaliy. It was sold there readily at a shilling per pound, and he has since been informed that there is a market there at the same price for as much aa he can supply.