INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 196, 20 August 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRESS AGENCT.] m „,. . Dunedin, Saturday. Two illicit stills have been found in working order at Opoho, two miles from Dunedin They were owrcd by Alex. Wylie, an expoliceman. . Monday. A hre broke out in Messrs Weir & Sampson's, River-street, on Saturday night. It was speedily extinguished, but not before considerable damage had been done. The amount of insurance is not known. fellmongery, Green Island, was burned down last night. Inveroargill, Monday. At a meeting of citizens it was resolved that benevolent institutions should be probibitel for Southland, and an influential committee was appointed to take further action in the matter. „ , . Auckland, Saturday. , Alburnias ran up to £8 losia consequence of rich specimens, and buyers were found at that figure. Mr Binney reports— Flour, Dunedin, £18 Christchurch, £14 to £16; bran, £5 ; oats 3s 8d ; pollard, £6 10s ; maize, 3s 9d ; pota' j toes, £3 to £3 6s ; hams an i bacon, 8d • cheese, 6d ; oatmeal, £20 to £21. The trade complains of limited business. Mr Buckland reports fat cattle at 30s per _. .7 , Wellington, Monday. lhe following are some of the leading features in the District Railway Bill: -Joint I Stock Companies may construct and main- i tarn railways. Companies are first to make l application to the Couutv Council, 'and if a i majority of one of the members approves of the proposals then the voces of the ratepayers are to decide, but if a majority of the County Council disapproves, the matter >s to i drop. When the sanction of the ratepayers ! and the Governor is obtained, the Company j may take the land required, subject to Government inspectio _, and, in accordance with approved plans, may construct railways, the gauge to be three feet six inches. 'Interest I at the rate of seven per cent to be guaranteed to the company on the cost of construction, ! such interest to be raised by a special rate levied by the Borough and County Councils. A London cablegram announces the following arrivals-. -May Queen, from LytteltonOamaru, from Dunedin ; Windsor Castle, from Sydney. Arrived — Barque East Lothian, from Singapore, which she left on the 20th of June. She brings a cargo of 500 tons of Eastern produce for W. and G. Turnbull and Co. Gketmouth, Monday. \ G. Moss and Co. report sales of Hopefuls at £5 12s 6d ; Energetic, £6 10s ; Wealth of Nations, £5 10s ; Darr (?), 14s to 15s* | Welcome, £2 • United Alpine, 6s 6d ; Just I m Tune, 14s ■ Golden Fleece, 21s ; Nil ! Desperandum, 3s ; Boatmen's Creek, ls 9d • Greymouth Coal shares, £2 10s. ' Fout Chalmers, Monday. Scarlet fever has broken ont here. Five cases have been reported since Saturday, and one death occurred this morning.