INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 129, 2 June 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Friday. During the recent visit of the AttorneyGeneral, the new Native Lands Bills was finally settled, Mr Whitaker's proposals were accepted nearly without objection. The Act of 1873 is to be repealed altogether, and the general scheme is to return to the policy of 1865 with amendments suggested by experience. The Government evacuates the land market, and leaves speculation to the public. Certificates are to be issued to owners, and they may sell or lease to whom they please at once. Mortgages are forbidden, The general idea of the Bill is absolute freedom to the Maori in territorial rights, and absolute freedom of land from Government interference, The duty is to be 20 per cent ad valorem. The Customs revenue for May was £13,342, showing a falling off of £2948 as compared with May, 1876. Mrßuckland reports— Fat cattle, 28a to 30s; mutton, 4d. Mr Binney quotes— Crown brand flour, £22; Southern, £19; bran, £6; oatmeal, £16---oats, 3s 6d; bacon, 7d to Bd. Lyttjelton, Saturday. Sailed— Emerald, for Nelson. Wellington-, Friday. The Gazette to-night notifies the approval of Her Majesty to E. Richardson retaining the title of Honorable within the Colony of New Zealand. The Wellington Post appears to-night enlarged by a column in width, and now equals the size of the Otago Daily rimes. The newmachinery prints 4000 an hour. Dunkdin, Friday. The Taieri Council to-day decided to abolish toll bars in that district. Produce quotations:- Oats, feed, 2s 6d, milling, 2s Pd; wheat, 6s 3d to 6s 6d, chick, 3s 8d to 3s 9d; barley, malting, 4s to 4s 4d feed, 2s 6d to 3s ; bran, £3 15s; flour, in large bags, £17, in small bags, £17 10s; oatmeal, £16; potatoes, £4; hay, new, £4, old. £5; chaff, £4; straw, 40s. Mr Bradshaw reports :— Colonial Bank shares, 41s ; Bank of New Zealand, £20 10sNational, 675; New Zealand Insurance, £4 15s; South British, £4; Standard, 15s; Otago and Southland Investment, 365; Loan and Mercantile, new issue, 50s ; Mosgiel Woollen, 50s. ' ,_ Saturday. Yesterday afternoon the Yen. Archdeacon Edwards and the Rev Dr Stuart, on behalf of the city clergy, waited upon the Mayor and obtained his consent to preside at a public meetiug next week to consider the advisability of talcing steps to retain tho services of Mr Torranco as chaplain of the gad, hospital, and luuatic asylum. The Times says:— "We have reason to believe that the Otago members in dealiDg with economic administration in the Assembly next session will have a good deal to say concerning Mr Wbitaker's Auckland trip in the Hinemoa, and other circumstances connected with that vessel and the Stella. A suburban member is also known to be determined to make a strict enquiry into Colonel Gorton's branding or stock-taking department." * . Christchorch, Saturday. The grain and produce market is very active. Wheat for milling readily commands 6s 6d for good, and 5s 9d to |6s for sprouted and second quality; oats are' firm at 3s; barley is dull of sale, and quotations

are nominal; flour is in brisk demand at £16 to £17; bran, £4 10s; sharps, £5 103; potatoes, £3; cheese, 7d. The graiu deliveries are over till spring, and stocks are being rapidly reduced. Bloff, Saturday. The mail news per Ringarooma, which left Melbourne on May 28th, has been nearly all I anticipated by the San Francisco mail or by cable. Mr Bourke, the Under Secretary, in replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that no treaty existed guaranteeing tha neutrality of Roumania, which the European Powers considered a part of Turkey. i The Khedive of Egypt, notwithstanding the dissuasion of France, has promised to send a contingent under his third son, Princa Hassam Pasha, to assist Turkey. [For which latter item of news cable charges have already been paid.— Ed. N.E.M,] The Ringarooma arrived this morning. She experienced fine weather throughout the passage which occupied 4 days 9 hours. She brings 16 saloon and 15 steerage passengers, and 203 tons of cargo for alt ports. Shß sails at 3p m. for Dunedin. Passengers for Nelson : Messrs Buckworth, Spare, and Roberts, and 3 in steerage, also 29 tons of cargo.