INTERPROVINCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 254, 6 November 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

fPBKBS AOK9OT.I WkixuiGTOir, Wednesday night The Wairoa has been placed in quarantine, there being two cases of scarlatina and two of measl n on the voyage. There were two deaths from -consumption and a child died this morning. The Agoes did nothing to-day. The final repairs it is anticipated will lie made tomorrow. The Court of Appeal ooehs on Monday next. ~ Mr Arthur Cooper, son of the Under Secretary, is said (o be appointed Secretary to the Chief Justice. Mr Redwood's Grip and Bt. George have , gone to Cbri tchurcb. Deputations from the Local Industries Association will wait on the Government and Corporation relative to the manufacture of railway carriages, drain pipes, and other articles capable of being manufactured in the colony. The Chamber of Commerce is moving in the matter of the tariff revision. It is reported that the Government interd to repeal the land tax, to increase the stamp duties, impose a properly tax, reimpose the duties od tea, sugar, and floor, and incnase the duty on spirits 2s per gallon. Another Building Society is being started. It is stated the Government will accept - Mr Montgomery's amendment to abolish plural voting. Thursday. Mr George Thomas reports Adelaide flour, £16; colonial, £13 10*; oats, 2s 7d to 2s 9d; bran, 4«; wheat, fowls, 4s 9d; maize, 4» 6d ; pollard, JE6; potatoes per ton, £9 10a to £10; bacon, 10d; hamt, 10 }d; cheese, Btl to BJd; batter, 7d, no sale; oatmeal, £15 to £16. The sea and wind in the Straits are unfavorable to completing the cable repairing operations, and the Agne« still Iks in Worsens Bay awaiting a favorable tide. She has 18 miles of cable on board in a condition M flood as new. The conditions required to make » successful job are that she should

start from the White's Bay end, paying out against the flood tide over the new route which has been surveyed to avoid the bad ground where the previous cable was destroyed through chemical action. It ft probable that the Agnes may hsve to remain where she is for a dny or two yet. CHBisTcuoßCir Thursday. Jacob Bloom, charged with obtaining jewellery worth £50 from Mr Newman, of Wellington, was remanded to Wellington. The case of Edgar Osborne, the lad accused of arson, is now going on.