INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 134, 5 June 1875, Page 2

INTER-PROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Saturday. Mr O'Shea reports potatoes £4= to £4 10b per ton; flour, £•! JOg to £12; maize, 7s; '. oats, 3s Gd to 3s 8d; wheat, ni milling; bran Ib 9d to is 3d; cheese, 10 _n ; bacon, 10. . Sailed— Wellington, for Picton, Nelson, nnd North. Passenaers : Mr nnd Mrs Roth er ham, Miss Fuithiuil, Mr 9 Collier vnd chi : d, Mees*s A. Ching, Whitehouse, Chew, . Naird, Callan, Smith, Battey, Crowley, Turnbull, Snelg-am, and Graham. His Excellency and Lady Normanby visited the Catholic Convent and schools •; - yesterday afternoon, and expressed themselves greatly pleased with the arrangements of tho schools, but not with the ac:ommoda J tion for the Rev Sisters, but that defect is ' about to be remedied. " ' Chkistchurch, Saturday. A sad accident occurred in Oxford Terrace lust nii/lit. Mr Gordon Glaasford, Secretary •to ihe Inspector of the Bank of New South Wales here, was driving a pair ot horses in a buggy, when the horses allied and bolted, and he was thrown out, and fell on the back part of his head, which was completely shattered. He was alive when picktd up, but died shortly after. He leaves a wife and four children. He wab an old resident, and a prominent boating man, being Commodore of the Union Boating Club. Grain market quitt; 12,332 sacks wheat were shipped in the ship Warwick, lor London. Quotations, fo.b.— Wheat, 4s 61; oa's, 3s 9d; barley, 4s;9d to' ss; flour, £\0 10s to .£11; bran, ss; sharps, 6s; haras, Is; bacon, is; cheese, 11'. Mr Wynn Williams has resigned the Provincial Solicitorsh.p, and his seat in the Executive C .uncil. At the meeting of the Provincial Council yesterday afternoon, he stated that his reason for resigning was that he could not agree with hiß colleagues en the question of education. He was of opinion that educatim had now lallen into wrong hands, and tliat the Government Bh--uld not have, the management of that department. He aUo disagreed with the [[provisions in the > -mention Bill, lor doubling tbe contributions of dist-icts towards the erec ion o* sclvols. Auckland, Saturday. The Auckland Steam Packet Company are negotiating for the purch»se of the new steamer Llewellyn, built at Sydney. If tbe purchase is completed this vessel will replace

the Star of tho' South in the Fiji trade Captain Holmes proceeded to Sydney yesterday tojn p Vt heh Mr BuWkland reports fat cattle. 3os to 42s per lOOlbs; fat sheep, 4Jd to 5d per pound. The Nfw Zealand Loin and Mer antih? Agency has received the following commercial telegram, per Tararua, dited Loneln, May 28.— 0 f the' woo 1 up to iale 130,000 bales ■ aye been sold. Competition on French account is active, but the German demand is dull; scoured market is firmer; 'the m dium and inferior greasy nvrket is casi' r; superior greasy crossbred lambs nurVe-t is easier; superior clothing, and wa*h<!d, adv nc< d from )d to _d. The wheat market is quiet. Adelaide is worth 49s per 494 lbs. The weather is favorable for the crop here. A tel gram from Whangarei states that vagu<* rumor* are afloat of a serious ntive disturbance atNguagrau, but there is no hing definite. A torn -•> hawk is said lo have been used. It is probab yame c drunken row.