INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 169, 8 July 1876, Page 2

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Wellington, Friday. Arrived— barquo Pym, irom London. The captain states that he never experienced such a bad weather voyage. Out of about 400 English bird? cousignei to C. T. Nairn, there are only left 30 siarlingg, 9 b'ackbirds, 47 thrushes. 18 robins, and 10 chaffinches The Times this morning compliments tho Telegraph Department on the achievement of having wired the Financial Statement to every newcp'p.-r in th 3 colony immediately on its delivery, and to accomplish the same operators throughout the colony had been at work all night and until nine in the morning. Mr O'Shea reportj wholesale produce prices as follows:— Flour, £U 10s to £12; maize, 4s Sd to ss; oats. 2s sd; to 2* 6d; bran, Is; pollard, 6s to 7s ;pMatoes, 60s to 725; cheese, 8J to 9£d; hams and bacon, 9 J to 10 i. Auckland, Friday. The^ city everywhere showed signs of mourning, and there was a large attendance at Mr Wilson's funeral. The barque Lady Franklin owned by Lord and Hughes of Melbourne, got ashore at Kaipara, where she had gone to load timber. It isexpectel she will be got safely off Kich gol-i has hesn obtained in the Kipinga reef, Ooromandd. for which an English Company have teen sinking four jears and spent £40,000. Grtat excitement prevails here. A Maketu telegram states that the native*, after removing bones th^re, got drunk, and smashed in the windows and sashes of the Telegraph Hotel because the landlord closed the doors. They injured the landlord and lodgers. bailed— Kennedy for Nelsou and West Coast. Passengers: Messrs Mehaffon, Burnes, Williams, and two in steerage. Mr Bujklmd reports: —Eat cattle, 27s to 355; sheep, 21s to 31s. Share market sales— South British 52?; Colonial Bank, 3 ls; National Insurance, 23s 6d; B ink of New Zealan J, £18 2s 6d. Sellers —Standard 12s. DnsßDiN, Friday. Wheat continues steady at last quotations, good to prime quality being saleable at 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; medium 4s 3d to 4s sd; fowl feel, 3s 6J. Bar'ey, of best quality 4s 9J; inferior and ordinary unsaleable Oats ls 8J to Is 9d; holders asking Is 10.1 to U lid. . Mr Bradshaw reports:— Colonial Bank shire?, 31s to S2s; Bank of New Zealand, £18; National Bank, 74b; .<>ew Zeilaud Insuranc3, 775; National Insurance, 23s 6d; Standard, 123 3d; South British, 535; New Zealand Shipping, _(R Buyers -Bank of New Zealand. £17 18 61; Colonial, 31s 6d; National. 7_; National Insurance. 23s 6d; Standard, 12s; New Zealand, 775. Sellers— National Insurance, 245. Cheistchobc- Friday. Wheat market firm at 4s 7d to 4s 8d; oats, 2s Id to 2s .d; barley, in request at 4s fid for prime malting. Flour, £10 lOs to £11 IOs; bran, £5 lCs; sharp?, £6 lOs, very scarce. Cheese, 9 Jd; butter, ls 31; ham and bacon, 9J-1; potatoes, £3. Millers' stocks light but little wheat unthre3hed. Saturday. In the Supreme Court, Joseph Catchpole, tried on a charge of ars >n, was found not g'liity. In the case of Matthew Henry R Lind, charged with manslaughter, Ju-lge Johnston siid that the shooting of Annie H ndtrrsoo b> Roland appeared to have been a pure misarfve.ture, Tlie Crown Prosecutor tli. relore declined to offer any evidence, and the pri-oner was discharged. This concluded the criminal sessions. At a conference between the Chamber of Commerce and the L>ttelton Borough Council, it wis decilcd to pr pare a draft ; Bill for the constitution of a Harbor Board for Lyttelton. Tnere are rumors of moro disaffection among the employes on tha Cinterbary railway. The frets this morning says that it hears an action for breach of promise of marriage has been <ommenced again-.* a well known squatter, in which largs damages are claimed, aud that it will come on for trial shortly, when some amusing revelations will be made. A womun named Shcean has been committed for trial for murdering her infant child by drowning Mrs Sheean says that during an attack of faintness she let the child fall into a bnckt-t of water, and she become powerless to remove it till it was too iate. The medical evidence went to show that there were no marks whatever to be seen on the child, and that it could not possibly have fa'len into the bucket. Mrs Sheean has only had two children before this, and both were killed, one being smothered in bed, and the other drowned in a well. Gb_-Moo-K, Friday. The Maori brings Captain Webster, of the barque Czarewitch, bound from the Bluff to Sydney, The vesf el reached within 500 miles of Sydney, when she met with frightful weather, the pumps got choked and the vessel was rttn ashore. She was leaking when she left the Blaff, and tried to make Jackson's Bay bnt failed. An official enquiry will be held to-day.