INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 53, 2 March 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Chkistchubch, Friday. The General Government have grained the request of the City Council for the endowment of 2000 acres of land for city purposes. A warrant lias been issued against Pooley, one of the English Eleven, for assauit and wilful destruction of private property, ariaing out of a betting transaction. Wellington, Thursday, •The successful tenderer for the erection of the Government public offices at Blenheim is John Knight, of Blenheim. Sixty-two births, 24 deaths, and 15 marriages were registered in Wellington during the month of February, It is understood that the Registrar-General puts the population down at between 16,000 and 17,000, instead of 12,000 as usually supposed. During the months of January and February last year there were 71 dea hs, and during the corresponding months of this year there were 99 deaths. Custom-house officers appeared in uniform to-day for the first time, by order of the Inspector. A shipment of 125,000 white fish has been received here from Michigan, in good condition. Itwilbe placed in the Makerawa ponds, Southland. The Government have decided to make extensive additions to the Telegraph Office. Legs of mutton are selling at Wairarapa at Is apiece. The Customs revenue for the month of February is £16,767, as against £18,991 for the corresponding month of 4876. „ „„ Friday. Mr O'Shea reports prices as follows:— Flour, old scarce, £16; new, none; Adelaide, £18 10s; oats, new, 3s to 3s 3d; old bran, Is to Is 3d; wheat, 2s 6d to 3s; pollard, £7 to £7 10s; hams, lod; bacon, 4d to 8d; cheese, B£d; potatoes, £4 to £4 10s; maize, 4s 9d. The return received from the Agent-Gene-ral by the last mail shows that the following immigrants were sent to New Zealand from June to December, 1876:— T0 Otago, 1353Canterbury, 1340; Wellington, 736; Westland, 227; Taranaki, 114; Nelson, 104; Marlborough, 96; Auckland, 654; flawke's Bay, 554 statute adults. . Otago, Canterbury. Wellington, Westland, Taranaki, and Nelson having an aggregate of 173 more, and Auckland, Hawke's Bay, and Marlborough 100 fewer than were ordered, the total excess lot the whole colony being 73. Captain Williams, the owner of the sunken hulk Eli Whitney, has demanded of the Union Company £3000 as compensation for the los 3 sustained by the Taupo running into the hulk. The Union Company have declined to pay any sum, Grahamstown, Thursday. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, a man named Matthew Kitt was bound over to keep the peace for six months for calling John Graham a hangman and saying he hanged Curtain. It appears that Graham has suffered from the charge made, and it is reported that his comrades (he is a volunteer) refused to fail in with him the other day because he was uuder the imputation of being a hangman. He also states that he cannot find employment. Auckland, Thursday. Mr Francis Darwin writes to the Star under date Kent, England, January 4, 1877, .as follows:— "Dear Sir— My father directs me to thank you for your account of the alleged discovery in ~New Ireland. My father does not believe in the existence of tailed men, but even if it should prove true it would (as mere inherited monstrosity) have no important bearing on evolution.— Your faithfully, F. D*rwin. The Chamber of Commerce to-day met Commissoner Young, of the Dominion of Canada, who said he was on his way to the Sydney Exhibition as agent for Canada, and that two vessels (the Gem andEseort) were on their way with Canadian exhibits for Sydney. His object is to cement commercial relatiors between New Zealand and the Australian Colonies and Canada. Arrived— lmmigrant ship Oxford, from London, with 239 passengers, equal to 207£ adults. No deaths. Joseph Foster, oue of the passengers, will be proceeded against for making a false declaration representing a woman travelling with him as his wife whereas he left his wife and family in Eng!aid. Taoranga, Thursday. The Bay of Plenty Times' Rotorura correspondent wires, that last night, out in Rotorua Lake, a geyser started snddenly spouting out an immense body of water to the height of 30ft. It lasted some time, and was accompanied by a rumbling noise. It was witnessed by a large number of the inhabitants of Ohinemutu, whom it roused up, causing considerable excitement. All is quiet now, and only a deep hole marks the spot. Weather magnificent. Oajiaru, Friday. Notwithstanding the late floods the grain crops in this district are threshing out remarkably well. Threshing is almost completed, and large quantities of grain are coming into town for milling. Meek's, Hay's, and Barr's fiour mills are working night and day. On some farms in the dist rict the wheat average is sixty bushels to the acre; on others oats reach as high an average as seventy-five bushels. The average yield in the district will be higher than it has been for two years past. Wheat is being bought at 4s 2d to 4s 6d for first class samples. Oats range from 2s to 2s 6d.