INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 227, 15 September 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington Friday. Mr O'Shea reports produce prices as follows:—Mour £13 10s to £13 15s; oats 2s Gd to 2s 9d; maize 4s to -Is 3d; bran Is to ls Idpollard £7 to £8; wheat, chick, t *s ed; hamad; bacon 6d to 6d; cheese 9d to lOd; potatoes 70s to 755. l

_ Gbeymodth, Thursday. Great indignation was felt here yesterday at the Otago going on to Hokitika without waiting, although the tug was in readiness and the bar good. The Otago discharged part of her cargo at Hokitika, and all the Greymouth passengers. The vessel came back here this morning, where she shipped BOOOOZ3 of gold and a large number of passengers. She is now at Hokitika trying to get the balance of her cargo out. There are 37G8ozs of gold waiting for the Alhambra, nearly all from Reefton. Dunedin, Thursday. At a meeting of the Fire Brigade last night, the secretary was instructed to telegraph to the Wellington Brigade at once to the following effect— "Value of Cup, twenty guineas; time for competing, December 26, at Caledonian Society's new grounds. Eight best men of each Brigade to form competing teams." It was also resolved that there should be a grand demonstration, to which the various Brigades of Sydney, Victoria, Tasmania, and New Zealand should be invited. The question of union between the Presbyterian churches of the North and those of Otago and Southland occupied the special meeting of the Synod at the First Church during the whole of yesterday, and up to one o'clock this morning. The question occasioned a hot discussion. Beyond affirming the desirability of the proposed union, the meeting proved resultless. Resolutions were carried to the effect that the Synod approves of the union of the churches, but considers that in the face of existing opposition it is not expedient Jto proceed in the matter at present. Roberts beat Weston last night by fifty four points. There was an extraordinary occurrence at the funeral of a Good Templar yesterday. Mr Hayes, a member of the Hearts of Oak -Lu-lge, died in the hospital on Monday, and was buried at the expense of the Lodge, with the approval of his widow. The funeral left the hospital about 2.30 for the Northern Cemetery, where a piece of land had been purchased by the Lodge, the widow accompanying the hearse in a carriage as chief mourner. When in King-street, near Unionstreet, a party of about ten or twelve men overtook the funeral procession. One of the men seized the hdrses' hoads, and some of the others said, " You have gone far enough; we will take it our way now." In order to avoid a scene, the Good Templars, numbering seventy or eighty, did not offer any resistance, and withdrew from the procession. The men who had taken possession of the hearse and body then asked the undertaker to drive to the Roman Catholic Cemetery. Upon arriving there it was found that no preparation had been made for tbe burial, and at about five and six o'clock last night the body still remained unburied. It is understood that the Lodge had been allowing the man's wive 10s a week while the husband was in the hospital. One of the members of the Lodge, who had taken the principal part in the funeral arrangements, says there had been no intimation whatever conveyed to the Lodge that objection had been taken to their proceedings until the funeral was interrupted in King-street.