INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 100, 30 April 1877, Page 2

I NTERPRO VINCIAL.

Wellington, Monday. The Loan and Mercantile Agency report by cable that the wool market is dull. Antwerp sales flat. The May series will comprise about 300,000 bales. Tallow is in good demand and the market firm, holders demandirg higher rates. Mutton, ,435; . beef, 4ls. The wheat market is firm, and cargoes off. the coast have advanced since our last report. Adelaide is worth 68s ; New Zealand, 625. The' following ships had arrived in London on 'the 21st instant: — From Melbourne, North . America ahd Rodney; from Dunedin, .the Timaru. . ... Wanganui, Monday. • . The railway between WanganuLandTurakina will be formally opened iii i" about a fortnight, but a special train will be run today to Turakina starting from Wanganui at one o'clock. * ..-•>-• i : •. Oamaru, Saturday.There has been a 'ia.it amount of business doing in wheat up to 4s 7d for prime samples, inferior ranging from 3s 9d and upwards. This description is -coming forward freely, but there is also a good deal of inferior off er- , ing as fowl feed at 2s to 2s 6d. In oats little ■ business is doing, quotations ranging from 2s to. 2s 3d; barley in little demand, 3s 6d to 4s, the latter being for prime malting; potatoes, 30s per ton, and large quantities offering. Export prices for breadstuff s f.o.b.: — Flour, .£l3: oatmeal, £13 10s; pollard, £5 10s; bran, £3 10s. '-.; Sailed— Brigantine Catherine, with a cargo of oats. V ' AocKLANDi Saturday. Mr R. Graham, in addressing the electors of City West, said he thought the land fund beyond control, and advocated equitable arrangments between North and South, failing which separation must take place. He advocated unrestricted sale of lands by natives, reform in administration, reduction in the Civil list, a general system of secular education, sale of railways to English capitalists, thereby reducing loans and taxation; lands of absentees should be taxed, and I a comprehensive system of self-government for Auckland should be arranged.I . , Bluff, Monday. The Arawata arrived yesterday, having left Melbourne at 3*30 p.m. on Monday. She met the Ringarooma in Port -Philip Bay. Light easterly winds and fine weather prevailed until midday on the 26th, when a heavy S.E. gale with a high head sea was encountered until making the S.W. Cape afc noon on the 28th. She brings 48 saloon and 34 steerage passengers, and 300 tons of cargo, also 5 boxes containing. 35,000 sovereigns. Saloon passengers for Nelson: Mr and Mrs Gray, Mr and Master Bruce, also nine tons of cargo.