INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 61, 12 March 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

m . Bluff, Monday. .... The Ringarooma left Saudridge on the 6th insfc., arrived at the Bluff yesterday morning, and sailed shortly after for Port Chalmers! She brings 14 saloon and 13 steerage passengers, and 167 tons cargo for all ports. Passengers for Nelson : Messrs 'Buchanan and Dowling; also two tons of cargo. cM * *t rr Ltt telton, Monday. bailed— New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Rangitikei, with 74 passengers, and a cargo of wool, tallow, wheat, and gold valued at £122,000. Post Chalmers, Monday. Sailed— New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Otaki, for London, with a cargo of wool, tallowj and other produce valued at £9?;729. Oamaku, Monday. ' The wheat market is likely to suffer a decline in price. It is at present quoted : at 4s 3d, but owing to a large quantity of firstclass samples coming to hand it is expected to decline at least twopence per bushel during the present week. TAtrro, Monday. ~ The Native Minister has announced-, his intention to meet the Queen and King natives here with Rewi on the 26th instant. Eewi and Major Mair come together frqin Waikato, and the Hon Dr Pollen will travel via Tauranga from Auckland. Amongst the important subjects to be bronght before the Native Minister will be the opening of the trunk line of road to Cambridge, so long successfully opposed by the King's party. Eewi, it is said, still bitterly opposes Ihe opening up of this last link in the coinmuni*cation between north and south. Grevsiouth, Monday. The Golden Fleece Extended Company have declared a dividend of one shilling and sixpence per share. This company has declared in dividends siuce the 22nd November last £16,800. : Wellington, Sunday. The shore end of the second Cook's Strait . Cable was spliced yesterday; the rest of the day was spent in fruitless endeavors toiget a boat ashore with the end of the cable, which owing to heavy rollers was prevented. This morning, while endeavoring to land the cable, the boat, with seven men in it, capsized, and one of the men was drowned. The cable is now being secured in the cablehouse at Lyell's Bay. Monday. The s.s. Hineiuoa arrived last night from Auckland with the Hon Dr Pollen. The Wellington Municipal Corporation has floated in London the Corporation Consolidated Loan of £20n,000 at 102 at six per cent through the Bank of New Zealand. Dunedin, Saturday. The rowing match for the handsome silver cup, presented by Mr Baxter, of the , Pier Hotel, took place this afternoon. The entries were :— Otago Rowing Club's "Isis, United Tradesmen's Young . Colonist, Union Club's Union, Excelsior Club's Little Nell and Excelsior, and the Alliance Club's Alliance. The probability of six 'crews; most of them well matched, contesting honors, combined with the fact that the match was one of the last of the season, caused the event to be one of great interest to boating : men, and a very close result was expected even by those who professed to be able to name the winner. The event was closely contested, and ended as follows :— Young Colonist, 1 ; Isis, 2; Little Nell, 3; Union, 4; Excelsior, 5; Alliance, 6. Greymouth, Monday. An attempt was made yesterday morning at two o'clock to burn down the premises occupied by Mr Laing and his wife as a store' and dwelling-house in Taiaru-street, immediately opposite where the Greymoutii Hotel ' was burned down. A bundle of wood and rags, saturated with kerosene, had been placed under the corner of the house aud" fired, but fortunately the blaze was seen-be-fore it got' a good hold, and the lire was ex-' tinguished without doing much damage. . . ".