INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 215, 19 October 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRESS AGENCY.] Balclutiia, Friday. The post office here was broke i into last night, and the cash box and between £60 and £70 was stolen. The cash box had not been left in the safe. The inhabitants are now gradually returning. The river rose a few inches last night, but no serioas flood is feared. Inch Chuha is still covered with water, and ' the settlers are boating off their stock to prevent death by starvation. Gangs of men are adapting the railway bridge here for foot passengers. New Plymouth, Friday. A man, named Roberts, engaged at the Sugar Loaves on a contract going on there in connection with the Harbor Works, was buried this morning by a fall of earth. He w«i3 immediately dug out and fouud to he alive but expired in about ten minutes afterwards. He was one of the last immigrants by. the Hurunui and was unmarried. Auckland, Friday. Share Market.— Sales: Bank of New Zealand £24 10s; Colonel Bank, £57 6s; Natioual Mortgage £25 6s ; South British, 68s 6d, ex dividend; Union 16s ; Guthrie and Larnach, 79s to 80s, paid up. Mining— Moanatairi, buyers 32s 6d, sellers 355; Alburnia, sales 245. Mr Buckland reports fat cattle at 25 s to 35s per lOOlbs; store sheep plentiful; half, bred wethers, 11s to 14s; ewes, 8s lid. Mr Binney reports trade generally [dull throughout the week, it being with difficulty that sales can be effected. In breadstuffs little is done, and prices remain nominal — £1 1 to £1 1 10s. No enquiry for wheat; oats a*e firmer, and a good enquiry exists for good samples; maize is also firmer, and the market very bare; oatmeal and pearl barley remain at former quotations — £22 and £24; bran and pollard, none in the market; cheese, if good, 7:Jd to 8d; hams and bacon in cloth, 8d to B£d, ditto, bare, 6^d to 7d; moderate demand for potatoes at £5 ss. Saturday. Arrived: May Queen, from London, with 250 immigrants, after a fine weather passage ot 90 days. There were four deaths of children and two births. The cargo is valued at £78,000. Wellington, Friday. It is stated that the Government and the Opposition have come to an understanding on the question of the Judges under the Native Lawsuits Bill, and that the following gentlemen will be appointed Judges : Messrs Williams, Mansford (the new R.M. of Wellington), aud George Cook, of Dunedin. It reported as almost certain that Hiroki, fie murderer, has died from gunshot wounds received at his attempted capture near Opuuake. Saturday. It is currently rumored here that the Government has made a concession by which certain parties are to have the exclusive right to a special wire for press telegrams from Auckland to Invercargill for a period of two years at a fixed annual payment, in lieu of the present press rate, the special wire to be at the service of the lessees from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. Ministers decline to give any definite information, but promise to lay the papers before the House. The Taiaroa for Nelson and North at 3 p.m. Passengers: Misses Shechan, (2) Miss Brown, Messrs Pearson aud Christie. It is understood that Ministers have agreed to raise the pay of the police from the Ist January next, but it is not yet known to what extent. Gheymouth, Saturday. An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in the Greymouth Coal Company (limited) was held last night to empower the Directors to sell the property aud plant by auction. There was a large number of shareholders present, and Mr James Kerr was voted to the chair. The following resolutions were carried unanimously : — " That the Directors be authorised to seil the mine and property by public auction."— <: That the Directors be empowered to pay the debts of the Company and divide the balance, if any, amongst the shareholders, and thereafter take the necessary legal steps to wind up the Company."—" That offers be taken, from the different auctioneers in Greymouth as to the terms on which they will sell the Company's property." — " That the Company's property be sold on the 15th November." CniusTCiicjßCH, Saturday. The through train to Dunedin resumed their running to-day.— At the Supreme Court yesterday the Judge made some very strong remarks about trustees, who, he said, were only servants of the Court. — A cablegram has been received from Captain Fox of the new steam-tug Lyttelton saying that the vessel had safely reached Singapore. Timahu, Saturday. A few parcels o£ oats have changed hands during the week at prices averaging from 3s lOd to 4s Id, but little is offering at 3s 10d; the price of wheat is nominal. The stocks in the hands of merchants and farmers are large. — The continous heavy recent rains have improved the young crops.