INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 272, 23 November 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PRKSS AGENCY.] Auckland, Saturday. Mf Binney reports flour £10 to £11 market overstocked: pollard, £5 10s to £6; bran, £6; oats, 4s 9d, market easier owing to large arrivals; maize, 5s 6d to 5s 9d, scarceoatmeal, £22 to £22 10s; pearl barley £23 to £24; cheese, 7d to "id; hams and bacon in clotb, 8d to BJd; ditto, bare, 7d to 7 id; potatoes, old, nearly unsaleable; ditto, new' £6 to £8. ' Mr Buckland quotes greasy wool, 7d to 7>d; washed, lid to 13jd; beef. 30s to 355; lambs, in large numbers and lower in valuepigs sell freely. Duxedin, Saturday. At a meeting of the Otago Cricketers Association last night, the interprovincial match -with Canterbury was arranged to take place on (he 10th, nth, and 12th February. A letter was also received from the Canterbury Association saying that the team to be sent to Victoria would, if time permitted, on their return play a mauh at Dunedin. Christchdhch, Saturday. Doubts having been cast on the story of the rescue of the two men from sharks at sea, the Captain of the Rangitikei writes confirming it, and states it is not at all ex-aggerated.-It is expected that 300 firemen and others will be present at the Brigade dinner on the the 6th December.— Several scoundrels for indecently exposing themselves, were yesterday sentenced to imprisonment. Between £300 and £400 have been collected for sufferers by the Waimete fire up to the present time. The general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has received a telegram dated Nov. 20th, reporting that the delay to the ship Plako is not likely to be serious. A public subscription is being made for the Portuguese castaways whose signed statements as to their sufferings appear in this morning's papers. It appears that while on the bottom of the boat they were so reduced by hunger as to eat the leg of one of their dead comrades, ™ xt n W^hngton, Saturday. me New Zealand Loan atfd Mercantile Agency report under date, London, 20th November :— Nine thousand balea of wool have been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. The opening catalogue contained 7000 bales, cross breds, iuferior and medium, and inferior greasy have declined to ald per lb. Scoured has fallen ald to lid per lb; washed clothing has declined a penny since the close of the last sales. The principal advance has been in medium to inferior washed. There is a moderate competition on the French account and holders are prepared to accept lower rates.