INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 277, 22 November 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[press agency.]

™ -r. * T Hokitika, Thursday. Mr h. A. Learmouth has been elected Mayor of Hokitika without opposition. mL Wellington, Thursday. The break in the Fort Darwin-Banjoewangi cable is ascertained by tests to be about 100 miles from Port Darwin.

• The Agent-General by telegram dated the 2nd instant advises the Government o£ the sailing of the Apelles with 248 immigrants for Auckland, Oaraaru with 65 for the Bluff and 190 for Port Chalmers, and the Hereford with 336 for Canterbury. The Mercantile Ageucy report, under date London, Nov. 7th.— Wool market firm. The next sales commence on the 13th inst Up to date 116,00u bales have arrived. Tallow arrivals heavy. The public sales of Australian comprise 3000 casks: mutton, 40sbeef, 395. The wheat market is flat at 49s' arrivals are heavy; Adelaide, 68s; New Zealand, 50s; leather in good demand for heavy sides, but lighter qualities are neglected, extra heavy, ll£d.

tt „ Christchttcch, Thursday. Von Gohntz, late Secretary of the Acclimatisation Society, was arrested to-day on a charge of embezzling the funds of the Society. It is suspected that he sold trout and hares and pocketed the money. ' It has been decided to ask the Government to proclaim December 16, our anniversary day, as a holiday here.

. . n -Pobt Chambbs, Thursday. Arrived— New Zealand Company's ship Waipa, 86 days from Plymouth. She brings 7 saloon passengera and 212 immigrants. Ihere have been five cases of scarlet fever and two of whooping cough. Two deaths of infants occurred fromcongestion, supervening on whooping cough. The ship is placed in quarantine, and the passengers are to go to Quarantine Island.

GsAffAMsxowjr, Thursday At a public meeting re the political situation, resolutions were passed that ifc was desirable that the present Government should have a fair trial ; that in the evenly-balanced state of parties in the House a dissolution is the only way out of the difficulty ; that as Mr Rowe, M.H.R. for the district, has broken his pledges, he be called upon to resign • that copies of the resolutions be forwarded to Sir G. Grey and Mr Rowe.