INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 42, 17 February 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wellington, Friday . Mr O'Shea reports produce pricea as follows.*— Flour nominal, old good, £15 to £15 IOs; new (to arrive), £12 10s; oats, 3s 3d; old, scarce; bran, 2s 9d; wheat (chick), 2s 9d to 3s 6d; pollard, 6s to 7s; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; cheese 8d to 9d; potatoes, £4 to d.5; bacon, Bd. The City Corporation have determined to call for tenders for the extension of the Queen's wharf immediately. The job will cost £20,000. Napieh, Friday. The figures sent yesterday, re Napier election, are pretty nearly correct. Sutton's e-ection. at all events, is undoubted. At first, when the Napier, Wairoa, and Hasting result only was known, there was great jubilation in the Buchanan camp, and Buchanan himself was returning thanks as the.lec.ed . member for Napier when to his great discomfiture a messenger arrived with the results from Taradale, Meanee and Paketapa, which reversed the victory, giving to Sutton a majority of 23 over Buchanan. When this became thoroughly certain there was great rejoicing in town; the brass baud turned out and marched to the Criterion Hotel, outside of which a large number of Sutton's friends had assembled. Sutton was loudly called for In co upliance with the call he addressed the assemblage from a cariage drawn up in front of the hotel. He thanked the electors for. the proud position in which they '> had placed him, and expressed a hope that the experience he had acquired during a residence of twenty years in the colony would' enable him to render good service in Parliament to the district and colony at large. He repeated the promises several times made during the contest that on his return from Wellington he would render an account of his stewardship. He trusted that he wquld be as well received then as now; that the cordial feeling manifested on the present occasion would, a' ways subsist between himself and his constijuents, and that he should always retain their confidence. There was immense cheering at the conclusion- of Sutton's address. The carriagein which Sutton and some of his principal supporters, were seated then paraded the street headed by the band playing " See the Conquering Hero Comes," He's a Jolly Good Fellow," &c., followed by a large concourse of people. On returning to the C riterion Hotel, Mr Sutton again but briefly expressed his thanks, and then proceeded, home, after much hurraying, &c. The band continued playing at intervals for sod c hours, after, and it was very late before the signs of rejoicing had entirely ceased. Christchurch Friday. A public meeting was held last night, when resolutions were carried antagonistic to Mr Carruthers' scheme of drainage, and asking the Drainage Board to reconsider the scheme as compared with the dry earth system. 3015 city letters passed through Christchurch Post Office on Valentine's Day. Duaedin, Saturday. Mr Bradshaw reports stocks as follows: — Colonial Bank, 365; Bank of. New Zealand, £19 5s ; National Insurance, 29s ; South British, 635; Daily Times, £5 ss. Messrs Royse and Stead report wheat, 4s 6dto 4s 8d for samples; flour, £14, with a downward tendency; oats,. 2s 2d to 2s 3d; barley, 2s 9d to 4s 5 bran, £5; pollard, £6 10_; oatmeal, £13 to £14 10s. The • weather during the week has been favorable for the harvest; and the farmers are busy getting their crops into Stack. There will be no deliveries of new .grain worth speaking of for the next ten days. The markets are very unsettled, and no reliable quotations can be given. Millers are offering 4s 6d to 4s 9d for good sound milling wheat, and 2s 6d to 3s for inferior parcels? -oats Is lOd to 2s is offered in Christchurch; flour £15 • (in sack), for old quality, no new in marketcheese, sid to 6d; butter 9d. As soon as threshing becomes general it is expected that prices will steady a little. The city assessment this year has given great dissatisfaction/ Over 800 objections are lodged. Auckland, Saturday. Weekly share market:— Bank of New Zealand, £19 ss; National, 70s; Colonial, 375; Loan and Mercantile Agency, 955, new issue 535 ; New Zealand Insurance Company, £4 13s 6d; South British, 755; Northern, 303; Standard, 14s. Mr Buckland quotes wool, in grease, at 9£d to lld; fat cattle, 22s to 26s per lOOlbs; fat wethers, 3d per lb; fat ewes, from 2d; hides, 3Jd to 4d; for horses the prices have a downward tendency. . '.. Proceedings haye been begun against the captains of cutters for carrying passengers without a license. Lyttelton, Saturday. The ship Wiltshire from London, November' 12, with immigrants has just arrived. All well on board. She saw the barque Hopeful last night from London November 2, bound here. Hokitika, Saturday. - Arrived— Hinemoa. The representatives landed this morning, and were entertained at lunch' this afternoon.' The Mayor proclaimed the day a holiday. Weather fine, but cloudy.