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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 80, 21 March 1876, Page 4

• a Regarding hops, the Australasian of March 4, says: —Trade sales of English hops are effected at about last week's quotations, but all other descriptions are completely neglected. |A parcel of prime English, 25 pockets, was placed at ls 9d, and a live of medium quality was quitted at ls 7d. American are nominal, at ls to ls 3d. The New Zealand Times of Wednesday says: —A fire occurred in the City Corporation yard, Manners-street, yesterday, and burned fiercely for a short time. It arose through the boiling, over of a tank of pitch, tbe pitch becoming ignited as it touched the fire, and in a very short time the shed was in a blaze, and the vicinity was literally blackened with smoke. Little harm would have been done but for the fact of a horse and cart being close by the tank at the time. The cart was loaded, and it is said the wheel was locked also. Hence, the horse could not very well escape, and iv a moment he was enveloped in the flames so that his driver could not even get near his head, and so the poor beast perished, his body charred in every part, and the lower joints completely burnt away. A more pitiable spectacle could not well be imagined. The pitch ran into the street, carrying the flames with it, and flowing down the gutter, burnt the wooden kerbing for many yards. The fire brigades turned out with great promptitude, however, and on arriving at the scene coon got the fire under.