INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 170, 16 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPKESS AGENCY/}

Wellington, Friday. Mr George Thomas reports produce prices as follows: -Elour, Adelaide £17, no stock, colonial £11; oats, 4s i)d to ss. and scarce; bran, Is 9d, and much wanted; wheat, 4s 3d, in good demaud; hams, Bid; bacon, 7*d; cheese, 7.\d, overstocked; pollard, £7 los, none in the market and wanted; maize, sid, stocked; butter, Is; prime samples of potatoes, £4 10s, in good demand.

The Gazelle of last night contains the resignation by Judge Ward of his oppointments as District Judge at Tokomairiro and Clutha, and the appointment of G. W. Harvey to be District Judge for the district of Western Otago, also of J. M. Watt, to be Resident Magistrate at Oamaru with jurisdiction to £100.

A new bi-weekly paper, to be called the Waipawa Mail, will be started at Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, in about a fortnight by Mr Hugh Thompson, the present editor of the Wellington Evening Chronicle. Mr L). M. Luckie will shortly assume the editorship of the Evening Post, and Mr Henry Auderson, who has resigned his position as editor of the I'ost, takes charge of the Evening Chronicle.

The Working Men's Club celebrated the opening of the new premises last night by a dinner. The Club started a short time ago with twenty members only, and it has now 300, and its financial affairs are in a satisfactory condition.

A petition praying for further inquiry into the case of O'Connor, recently convicted of an attempt to poison William Light, was presented this morning. 'It was signed by over 1100 persons.

Ahaura, Friday. The announced removal of Mr Warden Shaw has created considerable dissatisfaction throughout the Grey Valley, and a requisition is being got up'in his favor and numerously signed. The electors are strongly opposed to his removal .