INTERPROVINCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 112, 14 May 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

Wellington, Saturday. Captain Dalton, of the schooner Ruby, states thafc as he came up from Kaikoura yesterday, the sea was perfectly smooth in Cook Strait, bufc every fifteen or twenty minutes an enormous " blind wave " came up •/ as big as a dozen waves rolled into one," but without any " face " or break. Three gigantic "swells" came up from about S.S.E. The steamer Tni, while afc Kaikora, experienced the force of the wave, -which carried away all three of her warps. Monday. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report by cable, London, May 9, that the wool sales opened with an average decline of ld to I£d on the last wool sale prices. Since the close of the last sales greasy has declined ld, scoured 2d, clothiug washed 2d, the principal decline being in crossbred. Sixteen thousand bales have been sent to fche manufacturing districts direct. Trade in the manufacturing districts is unchanged. . The wheat market is quiet, Adelaide 725, New Zealand 50s. •; /The Court of Appeal opened this morning, but adjourned till the following day without transacting any business. There are only two cases on the list, and three cases in the Divorce Court. It is understood that Mr Ingwersen, the deputy-keeper of the Mount View Lunatic Asylum, ho*? levanted, leaving a large number of creditors. Dr Skae has taken charge of the asylum in the meantime. Ingwersen went away to Canterbury on leave of absence. The mounted constaMe sent to Palliser Bay to search along the coast for wreckage reports that he saw no traces of any recent wreck. The remains of what he did see were evidently those of a vessel wrecked over a month ago. He found pieces corresponding with those found by Merson. They were all of kauri timber, with Muntz metal nails. He also found the sliding cover of a companion hatch, painted white, 3i feet long by three feet wide. Lyttelton, Saturday. Sailed— New Zealand Shipping Company's ship Opawa, for London, with 18 passongers, aud a cargo of wool, wheat, and tallow, valued afc £32,000. CuniSTCHURcn, Saturday. There arc 116 entries for the ten scholarships offered by the Board of Education. The following are the entries for the Waimate Steeplechases:— Waimate Steeplechase Cup: Mr Andrews' Banjo, Mr Jacobs' Will If I Can, Mr Hoskius' Brunette, Mr Swanson's Tommy Dodd. Maiden Plate: Mr Martell's Jack, Mi* Hoskins' Brunette, Mr Jacobs' Will If I Can, Mr Smith's Lone Hand. Waimate Steeplechase Handicap: Mr Fraser's Cleaver, Mr Andrews' Banjo and; Lottery, Mr Hoskins' Brunetse, Mr Jacobs' Will If I Can, Mr Swanson's Tommy Dodd. Afc a meeting of the ratepayers held last night, a report was read from W. B. Bray, C.E., condemning the leading features of Mr Carruthers' scheme for the drainage of Christchurch, and resolutions were passed protesting agaiust the adoption of Mr Carruthers' scheme. It Avas also resolved to hold meetings for a similar purpose in various parts of the drainage district. Dunedin, Monday. King Phillip has been sold to Mi* O'Kain, Mosgiel, for £300. Two cases of sticking-up in Dunedin by night has been reported to the police within the last week. Mr Vincent Pyke has taken the initiative towards holding a conference with the Chairmeu of County Councils in Dunedin for the purpose of considering in whafc respect the Counties Act can be amended. A man was killed and five seriously hurt by an accident on the Mosgiel railway line, when the buffers fouled and the trucks upset.