INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1878, Page 2

INTERPROV INC I A L .

[PRKSS AGENOT.] Timaru, Friday. Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d. There is no sale for oats, as the new crop will be ready for the market in a fortnight; prices weaker, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. No demand for barley. Flour, £14 10s; sharps, £5 10s; bran, £4 10s. Oamaru, Friday. The grain and breadstuff's market still exhibits a downward teudency, no transactions going forward. Wheat, 4s; oats, 3s to 3s 6d; milling barley, unsaleable; flour, £14 to £14 10s, f.0.b.; oatmeal, £17; pearl barley, £20; pollard,£s ss; bran, 3s 6d. Sailed - Schooner Pelican, for Wellington, with breadstuffs. Dunedin, Friday. Goldsborough & Co. telegraph from Melbourne, under yesterday's date, that they have sold during the week 4000 bales of wool at the following prices : Greasy, up to ls 3£d; washed, ls 7£d. .. m . . jSaturdav. Mr lairoa will be entertained at a supper aud ball at the Maori kaik next Friday. There are now in Otago connected with the Presbyterian Church 95 Sunday schools 7346 scholars, and 649 teachers. Altogether 800J youths are receiving Bible instruction in connection with this church. Messrs James G/een, Richard Oliver Joyce, and Macassey are likely to become candidates for the representation of Port Chalmers. Grstmouth, Friday. The greal Hochstetter Water Race was formally opened by the Grey County Chairman yesterday, in the presence of his Honor Judge Weston, the member for Grey Valley, and a iarge concourse of people. A banquet and a ball took place in the evening. The race is a magnificent work, 16$ miles long, and carries about seventy heads of water. It has cost about £100,000. Great expectations of its utility are formed, and ail the water has already been applied for. Chbistchorch, Friday. Nothing has transpired regarding the employees' meeting last night, but it is stated that they intend holding another one shortly aud inviting the members of 'the Assembly for Christchurch to attend and hear their grievances. The harvest prospects continue to improve, and, fair average crops of all cereals are expected iv most districts. In old grain there is little doing. Milling wheat, 5s to 5s 6d; oats, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; barley, 3s 6dto ss; flour, £14 10s to £15 10; bran, £4 10s; sharps, £5 10s; cheese, 7d: butter, 9d. _ , _ Saturday. Father Henneberry continues his- mission services. He has been most successful in bis temperance lectures in the country districts, inducing immease numbers of Catholics to take the pledge. In the cricket match with the Australian Eleven, Canterbury will play with fiften men, but tbey are not yet selected. The Canterbury cricketers returned from their northern tour yesterday. Masterton, Saturday. beveral cases of typhoid fever have occurred in that part of the town principally ocpied by the. working classes, and one has ended fatally. Wellington, Saturday, A Gazette extraordinary just issued announces that Parliament stands further prorogued to the 29 th of March next. The Royal Italian Opera Company produced "Aida" last night. The Governor and suite were present. The house was one of the largest ever seen in Wellington, and the performance was a remarkable success, there being great applause throughout. Fully £300 was in the house, being £50 more than the company has yet taken in one night in New Zealand. A fire occurred in Willis-street last night when Moran's, shoemaker's, shop was gutted. The stock and furniture were insured in the Northern for £150, and in the New Zealand for £100. The loss is estimated at £350. Sailed— Arawata for Nelson, at nbon. Passengers, Mrs and Miss Thomas, Mr Ladd and Son, Mr Dixon. It has been settled that the portfolios to be held by Mr Ballance will be those of the Minister of Education and Commissioner of Customs The Government have proclaimed the Wellington anniversary day a public holiday. Three thousand young salmon leave here to-day to be placed in the Wanganui river. The salmon are from Christchurch.