INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 99, 26 April 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[press agency.] Lyttelton, Thursday night. The Ellora has cleared for London with a cargo of wheat, wool, tallow, and meats valued at £28,000 aDd twelve passengers. Wellington, Thursday night. Mr Clark, Civil Engineer is now engaged in devising a scheme for the drainage of Wellington. He has also undertaken to report upon the best means of bringing an additional water supply for the town from Pakurataki stream either by a ditch or aqueduet. Spurious soverigns are being circu'ug^ to some extent here now. The N.Z. Times appeared this morning enlarged to the same size as the leading journals of the colony. The Hon. Dr. Pollen has left Auckland to take chargie bii the paper as editor. It is stated, that immigration under the auspices tif 'the Government, which ceased for Some months, has been resumed. It has been ordered that free passages shall be provided for immigrants, so that they may arrive here in the spring, when there will be a large demand for their services. It is intended that passages for 5000 free immigrants shall be granted for the year. Reporters for the press will not be allowed to be present at the forthcoming native meeting at Hikuranga, but an arrangement will be made ror supplying the papers with a report of the proceedings. Sixty pounds of stone from the Golden Point reef, in Queen Charlotte's Souud, has been crushed here preparatory to be tested by Dr. Hector. [This is particularly interesting.—Ed> &.L.M.) Napier, Thursday night. Mr Ormond was presented to-day with a very handsome silver candelabra valued at JE2BO, the gift of a number of Hawke's Bay settlers, in recognition of his services as Superintendent. Mr Allan M'Lean's wool shed at Tukituki was burned to the ground to-day, destroying, besides the shed, about £300 worth of grass seed. The census returns show the population of Napier to be 5542, against 3414 in 1874. , Hawke'p Bay County, 874 ; Wairoa County, 826 ; Waipawa County, 4702. Total of the Provincial Districts of Hawke's Bay, 15,215. Friday. George Thomas reports produce prices as follows:— Fiour, £13 to £13 10s; oats, 4s 3d to 4s 4d; bran, Is Id; wheat, 4s; hams, 3£d; bacon, 7d, cheese, 7*d; maize, 5s 9d; potatoes, £3 15s; pollard, £7; butter, lid. Auckland. Thursday. At the Bank of New Zealand's half-yearly meeting to-day, the report showed a nett profit on the 31st of March, after making all deductions, of £82,567 ; balance from last half-year, £1700 ; total, £84,358.. It will be disposed of thus:— Dividend and bonus at 15 per cent, £54,375 ; increase to reserve fund, £95,000 ; balance to new account, £4983. The dividend will be payable at the Land Office to-morrow. The aggregate balance sheet shows a debtor and creditor account amounting to £10,550,000. Dunedin, Friday. Messrs Batts and Co, attorneys for Perry Davis, instituted proceedings yesterday in the Supreme Court against one Wilkin as manufacturer of painkiller, which is said to be an imitation of Perry Davis.' The other defendants are the sub-agents, Hayman and Co, and Lange, and Thoneman. An ex parte motion was waived in order to give the defendants an opportunity of being heard. Messrs Wright, Stephemon, and Co., in their grain report state that the millers are operating cautiously, and that the late quotations for barley are sustained. They quote extra prime milling samples, 4s 6d per bushel; good, 4s to 4s 3d; ordinary, 3s 9d; oats in brisk demand at 3s 5d to 4s 6d, for prime milling, 3s 4d for good feed. Barley, prime malting, is wanted, but almost none iB offering. It is saleabls from 5s 6d per bushel for prime malting samples, and 4s 6d for good quality Mr Bradshaw reports : Bank of New Zealand, £24 4s; National Insurance, £1 10s cum dividend; Union Insurance, 15s ; Standard Insurance, £13; Shipping Company, £3 15s; Mosgiel factory, £3 7s. Blenheim, Friday. On the Wakamarina Terrare four men are on payable gold. At thirteen feet sinking, one grain to the dish is obtained.