INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[press agency.] Auckland, Friday. The Governor, Lady Normanby, and Colonel Whitmore go to the Waikato on Monday. They will visit Hamilton and Cambridge, aud probably Alexandra. The assigned estate of Mr Mackay, land agent, which will be divided, will give 7s 6d in the pound, Mr Buckland repoita :— Fat cattle, 25s to 2Gs perlOOlbs; fat sheep, 2.id; pigs,2id; live weight. Mr Binney quotes :— Oats and flour, no sales; new, £14, in demand; oatmeal, £22, market very bare; bran, £6; pollard, 6; bacon and hams, 8d; butter, Is; potatoes, £3 IDs; oats, 4s 6d; maize, 6s 3d. Saturday. The Blanche brings news from Rorotonga of a dreadful hurricane at Paumota, in which 500 lives were lost, and many vessels wrecked. A correspondent, writing from Rorotonga on March sth, says that one of the Society's vessels, arrived from Tahiti, reports that one of thc Paumota lagoon islands, named Anau has* been completely swept by a hurricane and tidal wave, and that houses, trees, stores, and inhabitants are all gone, and Mr Bosie, trading agent for Messrs Branelers, of Tahiti, escaped with a few others. The greater portion of the crops are devastated, and between 400 and 500 lives lost, besides several vessels. Au eyewitness at Papeck writes :— " The sea rose over the land, sweeping away everything. We retreated to the highest point, about 20 feet above the sea level, and, fortuuately, the cyclone abated when the water was within two feet of us." The Tahiti Government have sent a man-of-war. The island of Kankira suffered most, losing 117 people and all the houses and boats. Mr Brander lost three schooners, one cutter, an<l twelve small boats, besides his whole establishment. At Anau the cyclone continued from the 7th to the Bth instant. Christchorch, Friday. The grain and produce market is very quiet. Quotations, f.0.b., at Lyttelton — wheat, 4s 9d to 4s lid ; oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; barley, 4s 9d to 5s ; flour, £12 10s to £13 10 ; bran, £4 10s ; sharps, £5 10s ; cheese, CJ ; butter, 9d ; hams and bacon, 8d in cloth. Saturday. On the Premier arriving at Akaroa the Town Council presented him with an address, and subsequently he addressed an open air meeting, when a resolution expressing confidence in him was moved by Mr Wackerle, and seconded by the Rev A. W. Aylmer. Mr Montgomery, M.H.R. for the district, supported the resolution, and said a cry had heen raised that Sir George was in favor of class legislation, but he had seon nothing tending in tbat direction, and should he do so, the Government whom he now supported would find no more uncompromising opponent than himself. The fact was that New Zealand politicians were dividing into two great parties, Conservatives and Liberals. The former desired all laws to be maintained which were eminently satisfactory to the few, but the Liberal party, led by Sir George Grey, wished for justice to be done to the whole of the people of New Zealand. The resolution was unanimously carried. The Premier was ofterwavds entertained at dinner, and attended a Presbyterian service. Sir George and party left in the Hinemoa for Wellington at 11 30 p.m. The Holdon station, South Canterbury, comprising 5,000 acres and 20,000 sheep, was sold yesterday to Mr Pringle, of Timaru, for £22,500. The Hon E. W. Stafford was entertained at a dinner at the Christchurch Club yesterday prior to his departure for England. The Board of Education have received letters stating, in reply to a question, that the Government have no intention of making provision for the education of the deaf dumb, and blind children. ' It is said to be the Premier's idea respecting the future use of the old Provincial Councii Chambers that they should be set apart for a public library and reading rooms. Oamarp, Friday. The grain market is in an unsettled state buyers are unwilling to operate owing to Melbourne news that grain is receding in price. Quotations are— wheat, prime milling 4s 4d, ordinary 4s 3d ; oats, good milling 3s 3d, feed 3s Id to 3s 2d ; bran, £3 lo ; pollard, £5 10 ; potatoes, £3— all f.o.b. Saturday. The Rev. Father Coleman, Roman Catholic Pastor of this district handed in tbe following telegrams to the Evening Mail in which journal they appeared : — " Oamaru, March 21. To the Rev. Father Henueberryj Kuuiara.— -Kindly reply by saying whether you denounced marriages between Catholics and Protestants as adultery, as slated by Press Agency telegram. — William Coleman." The following reply was received : — " Kumara, March 22nd. To the Rev. Father Coleman, Oamaru.— Press Agency telegram stating that I have denounced marriges between Catholics and Protestants as adultery is false. (Signed) P. Henneberry." Ddnedin, Friday. Mr Bradshaw reports :— Bank of New Zealand, £21 ; Colonial Bank, £2 lis ; National Bank, £3 Iss ; National Insurance, £1 13s ; Union Insurance, 15s ; New Zealand Insurance, £i 16s6d ; Standard, £1 13s ; Guth*

rie and Larnach's timber factory, £2 7s 6d to £2 Ws; Greymouth Co.il Company, £2 as. Professor Ulrich of Melbourne has accepted the office of Professor of Mineralogy nud Metallurgy iu connection with the School of Mines. Port Chalmers, Saturday. Sailed — N.Z.S. Company's ship Piako, with 43 passengers and the following cargo, for London :— 3SS9 bales wool, 13 bales skins, 2 bales rags, 130 tons flour, 200 tons manganese ore, 65 tons oil, 13 casks pelts, 2 casks skins, 37 casks tallow, 1 case ambergris, 5 tons sundries, and 10,801 ounces of gold. Total value, £131,934. Hokitika, Friday. John Howe Plainer, late agent of the Bank of New Zealand at Ross, was committed at the Resident Magistrate's Court to the Supreme Court on three charges of c mbezzlement of the Bank funds, aud six other charges are being proceeded with, on all of which it is thought committals will cake place. The total amount discovered short is a little over £1000. The defalcations commenced last ' March ; at various times siuce, Hanier granted fixed deposit receipts, not entering the amounts in his day cash book, also amounts entered in customer's pass book, and initialled, but never went through the books of the Bank. Napier, Saturday. Napier Races .-—Handicap Hurdle Race : The Agent 1, Express 2, Shamrock 3.— Hawkes' Bay Plate: Mufti 1, Lava 2. A protest was made against Mufti for crossing, and was allowed, and the stakes given to Lara.— Provincial Produce Stakes : Lady Elizabeth 1, Day-aud-Martin 2.— Trades- ' men's Handicap of 100 sovs : Luna 1, Noam 2. Twelve started. This Avas a splendid race, the first six horses passing the winning post in a cluster, aud was won by half a neck.