INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 186, 3 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

V^iIKSS AGENOY.I

>_, . Oamaru, Friday. lhe grain market quotations are inactive, and unchanged. Oats, firm, 3s 8d ; feed and milling oats, 3s lOd to 4s ; malting barley, 4s ; flour, £!1 to £11 10s f.0.b. ; oatmeal, £19 ; pearl barley. £24 ; pollard, £5 10s ; bran, £4 10s ; potatoes are increasing in value, and are now quoted at £6 per ton.

Auckland, Friday. Captain Kennedy, of the s.s. Hawea, reports tbat he Iteft Gisborne on Sunday morning last, And about 5 a.m. on Monday, the rudder head was carried away. It was blowing a strong N.W. gale with a heavy sea at the time. He ran for Hick's Bay, steering with the sails, and anchored there shortly after noon. He lay there till 8 a.m. yesterday, when the wind having changed to S.W., he left, with a heavy sea and blowing a gale, he did not call at Tauranga. Captain Kennedy was presented with a complimentary address and a purse of sovereigns by the passengers. The Pretty Jane was safe at Hick's Bav.

Dunedin, Friday. By a fire on McCarthy's farm in the Heriofc Hundreds, two thousand bushed of wheat and four thousand bushels of oats were destroyed. The property was insured in the New Zealand office.

It is intended to hold Saturday afternoon classes in Knox Church for religious instruction to young people attending Government schools.

Wanganui, Friday. The case of Frederick Whitlock and Thomas M'Donough, charged together with having had an illicit still in their possession, occupied the Court all.'day. The evidence of the Collector of Customs, Mr David Lundon, showed that while making a tour of inspection, his suspicions were aroused, and he made an investigation in the upper storey of the City Brewery. He caught the other defendant, Ambrose Lough, a partner of M'Donough, upsetting the vesel of the grog still, and the worm was partially hidden by sack3. Upwards of twenty gallons of spirits were in the room, the still working at the time. A fine of £250 with the option of twelve months imprisonment, was inflicted in each case. Ambrose Lough, caught in the upper room, tried desperately at the defence. As servant of M'Donough, he knew nothing of the unlawful proceedings, he was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, without the option of a fine. The defendant Lough states that the still was used for the first time when caught. The affair has oaused much excitement here, as it is the first case of the sort in town. The defendants' solicitors have giveu notice of appeal.