INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 301, 28 December 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

fPBKSS AOENOF.] . . DdxediiV, Friday. # A piano manufactory will be established in Dunedin shortly Misa McMaster was thrown at the Taieri Agricultural Society's show yesterday, and ma her arm broken. r , . x Otaki, Friday. Uwing to the unfavorable state of the ■wind and tide last night the steamer Glenelg did not make the attempt to tow off the ship Hyderabad, which was arranged to take place about midnight. The steamer is still standing off and on awaiting a favorable opportunity. A stiff westerly breeze ia blowing and a heavy Burf rolling in on the beach consequently there is not much likelihood of anything being done towards getting the ■vessel off to-day. . . Auckland, Saturday. Arrived, Hinemoa from Tauranga. She Will probably go north to-night. Mr G. W. Binney reports that business during the past week has shown signs of improvement as far as regards demand, but prices show no advance. Of southern flour the stocks are heavy, £10 to £11; Adelaide

•£l4 10s to £15; bran £5 10s to£C; pollard £5; maize 5s :?d to 5s 6d; oatmeal £22; cheese, Canterbury, 7Jd to 8d; local Gd to C.jd; bacon in cloth 8d to BJ<l, hams in cloth 9d to iod; hams ami bacon bare Gd to 7d; potatoes £7 10s to £S; sawn kauii, the demand is beyond the supply and the milis are full of orders. Of baulk ditto 1 have sold several cargoes at 6s Gd, and unless we have freshes prices will be firmer. Balclltiia, Saturday. A very strong gale has been blowing since yesterday afternoon, and the river is in high flood and still rising. The protective works in progress are proving thoroughly effective, and, but for these, the township would again have been flooded, but there is not <he slightest danger at present. A considerably larger body of water h flowing over into the Chit ha today.