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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 147, 23 June 1877, Page 2

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Auckland. Friday. The Collector of Customs is distributing £500 worth of bronze coin. Mr Chisholm has been fined £20 for a breach of the Scab Act. • "Volunteer Leigh was presented with the champion belt by Capt. Clarke. Mrs Clarke gives a cup.for the prize shot. [ „Mr Buckland reports:— Fat cattle of good quality maintained last week's quotations---23s to 38s; fat wethers, 3d to 3*d; ewes. 24---to3d. * Share market— Bank of New Zealand, .£2l 15s; National, 71s, buyers, 70s; Colonial, buyers, 445 ; South British Insurance, sellers lOOs; National, 32s 6d to 345, buyers, 82a 6d; New- Zealand, buyers 1025 6d. Caledonian, double buyers, £5; Moanatairi, £9 to £9 2s 6d. sellers, £9 ss; Union Beach, sellers, t 295; Tokatea, 12s ; Queen of Beauty, 22s 6d; Waitohi, 265 ; Piako, 9s; Thames Goldmining Co., buyers, 50s. | Masteeton, Friday. I In the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day; judgment was given in the case of the proprietors of/the News v. those of the Newsletter. The action was brought to, recover £50 damages for loss sustained through the defendants issuing a telegram which was missent to them. No evidence was brought for- I ward to prove that the defendants had not received a similar message, but judgment was given for £5 and costs. Notice of appeal was given. Gbetmouth, Friday. ; The Police Sergeant has returned from Seventeen-Mile Beach, and reports the wreckage to be that of the Kaikoura. Chbistchurch, Eriday, Wheat, 6s 6d to 7s ; stocks getting low, owing to excessive shipments to London; good milling scarce. Flour is in demand at £17; oats, 3s 6d for feed, milling would command a shade more; oatmeal, £18 to £22; potatoes, £3; cheese, 7d; hams aud bacon, Bd. Trade is brisk. Saturday. At a meeting of the Lyttelton Harbor Board, a committee was appointed to collect materials and form a comprehensive clan for .the improvement of the harbor. The Hon. John Hall, in moving the appointment of tlie committee, quoted the following figures to show the rapid increase of exports :T.J.__ \sqq there were grown in Canterbury 723,000 bushels of wheat and 713,000 of oats ; in 1873, 1,487,000 bushels of wheat, and 897,000 of oats *, in 1877, 2,623,000 bushels of wheat, and 2,931,000 of oats. The number of acres iu] wheat in 1876 was 92,000, and in oats 70.000, while the number of acres sold by the Crown amounted to 2,300,000. The first coursing match is to be held on July 2. At a conference of County Councillors last night, a resolution was passed that there should be only two Counties in Canterbury, and that the members of the County Councils be elected_by the Road Boards; that charitable aid and hospitals be administered by a Board representing Municipalities and County Councils, and that the fund for such (not coming out of the consolidated fund) be • contributed proportionately to the population by the Municipalities and Counties. 1 X Oamaku, Friday. Yesterday a widow named Quarrie residing at Oamaru died suddenly. After her death, her eldest son Daniel disappeared, aud was not ; heard of until this morning, when he • gave himself up to the police at Waimate. - A post mortem examination was held on the body, and a jury summoned for the inquest, when the police applied for a remand till Monday, on the ground that the son Daniel said he had been the cause of his mother's death. The doctor who made the post mortem, examination said the deceased died from fracture of the skull. The inquest was adjourned till Monday. Meantime, Daniel Quarrie will be brought down from Waimate. The affair has created a fearful sensation, as the Quarries have been residents here many years, and were highly respected. For some years past Mrs Quarrie has been addicted to drinking, and wheu in that state frequently irritated her son Daniel, who was always a quick , tempered boy, and when he saw his mother in drink it annoyed him very much. He iis only about 20 years of age, and has been eugaged for some years with Mr Lane, butcher., Wellington, Saturday. Mr Geo. Thomas reports produce prices as follows:— Flour, colonial, £20, Adelaide, £25; oats, 3s 6d to 4s; bran, Is 2d; wheat, fowl. 4s 3d to 4s 6d, milling, 7s; hams, lo_,d; bacon, 9£-d; cheese, 7d to 8d; maize, ss ; pollard, £7 6s; potatoes, £3 10s to £4. Bluff, Saturday. The Arawata left Melbourne at 235 p.m. on the: 1 8th instant, and cleared the Heads at 5, p.m. Experienced light westerly winds and tine weather until the morning of the 21st, when a fresh breeze came from the north-west, aud increased to a strong gale with a high breaking sea. Shifted at 1-30 a.m. on the following morning to the southward, and continued until arrival this morniog. She brings 335 tons of cargo for all ports, and 3000 sovereigns. Saloou passengers for Nelson: Messrs Parkea '(_), Misses Parkes (3), Misses Bissett, Caendot, and four m the steerage. Also six tons of cargo.