INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 175, 23 August 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[ritKSS AGENCY.] Auckland, Thursday night. The schooner Atlanta, twenty-two days from Patea, bound for Manukau with a cargo of sheep is missing, also the schooner Kaiuma from Waitara with sheep. It is feared both are wrecked. The Natives brought word that a quantity of wreckage had been washed ashore at the South Head lfaglan, and ,1 constable on proceeding to the place found thirty carcases of fat sheep without brands, which the Natives said came ashore on the previous night, also a small ladder and a semi-circular box with 7 by 2 battens 2 feet 3 inches in length painted Prussian blue and white. The box is of the kind used for covering rudder shafts and is now in the constable's possession. Constable Bulford was also informed by a settler living at liuapuke, distant 18 miles from liaglau, that ou Friday Jast a portion of a false keel, a quantity of onions, a box of caudles, and several sheep's carcases had come ashore upon Jiuapuke beach. Tho yacht Foam capsized at Northern Wairoa, Kaipara and the owner, Antonio Songe, was drowned. He had swum nearly ashore when he turned back for his coat which was floating in the stream aud was unable again to reach the bank. Friday. Mrßimiey reports:— Business still shows a want of animation, particularly the flour market, in which transactions are very limited, only small baker's lots moving oft' at £11 10s. Wheat comes forward more freely than required as the mills are holding good stocks, and 4s is the highest price obtainable for good sales. O;its show a decline on former quotations and move oil slowly at 4s 3d to 4s Cd according to sample; bran and pollard are out of the market aud no business is reported; potatoes, both for seed aud consumption are in good demand, and the market has hardened considerably; butter is in demand, and good qualities realise Is; cheese, 7dto7.',d; hams and bacon in request at B. ld. Share Market:— Snlcs of Bank of New Zealand £24; Union Insurance, 14stol4s6d; buyers South British, 725; sellers National Bank, 325; Colonial i'ank, Gl's; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile (new issue), £G 9s. Mining : Alburnia, sales at 47s Gd; Cure, 3s 9d; sellers Caledonian, 555 ; Union Beach, 10s. Wellington, Thursday night. It is intended to bring one or two tons of D'Urville Island ore to be smelted at some local foundry in the presence of all who wish to see the quantity of the ore. Friday. Mr G. Thomas reports flour market at a standstill at £11 10s; oats, 4s 9d to ss; bran, scarce and rising, Is 8d to 'Is i)d; wheat in good demand at 4s 4d; hams, 9d; bacon, 8d; cheese, 7}d, and overstocked; maize, 5s 2d to 5s .'3d; market full; potatoes, £4 10s; pollard, £9 10s ; bntter, Is; flour, Adelaide, £18. Port Chalmers, Thursday night. Arrived: Barque Kokeby Hall, 102 days from Londou. She brings 22 passengers and IGOO tons of cargo. When crossing the Indian Oceau she experienced adverse N.E. to N.W. winds, with high breaking sea aud low barometer. Cii]MSToiii:ncH, Friday. It is said that the missing man Cross, and his child, who disappeared so mysteriously from Sydenham on Monday, have turned up safely at Wellington. At a meeting of the Cathedral Guild last evening it was stated that a proposal had been made that one of the trausept columns in the Cathedral should be erected as a memorial to Bishop Selwyn. It would probably cost £1000. The inmates of the Old Men's Refuge at Selwyn were to-day removed to their new quarters at Athburton.