INTERPROVINCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 256, 8 November 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL

fPBKM AGENOT.I Wellington, Friday night. The reclaimed land purchasers are being allowed three months grace with respect to their next payment in consequence of the great depression of the times. The Government have issued instructions to the immigration officers in the various ports of the colony to accept no fresh nominations except those in favor of female domestic servants, unless upon the understanding that the Government is not bound to act upon the nomination within any given , time. The Agent General has partly ■upended all immigration temporarily, tak--1 ing care that none will arrive io the winter i I months. Faith, however, will be kept with \ • those immigrants who bad already made Arrangements to come out before these instructions were issued. There are certain special cases where the Agent General is allowed to use his own discretion. It is understood that since the Government provisionally accepted the contract for the Wellington — Foxton railway they have received news of an unfavorable nature regarding the floating of the five million loan, and at present under those conditions it is considered advisable to abstain from Contracting fresh liabilities of any magnitude.

The Waste Lands Board recommends that the minimum pf tee of land in the Wellington district be reduced from 10 8 to 7* 6d. uo aetprred payments be ng allowed, and re garding town sections that only a per centage in each block be soM on deferred payments, ana in all cases that roads be cleared before the sections are put up for sale. Saturday. The Howard reporters are applying for an increase of salary. The Reporting Debates Committee is taking the evidence of experts as to the rates of remuneratrn of reporters for the press generally, and other matters bearing upon the question. It is probable that the Hamnnl reporters will be paid £400 a year with the restriction that they do not work for the newspaper* dYrine the receas Ciiristchurcu, Saturday. Several parcels of wheat have been sold to millers up to ss, and more would be taken up at the same figure. Flour is £13 for best brands ; oats Is 9d to 2s, rates nominal ; no barley is offering ; there is only local business in potatoes \ butter comes freely forward at 7d but buyers are shy ; there is a fair demand for prime cheese at 5d to 6d ; hams and bacon are slow of sale at 9\d to lOd in cloth. Slade, a baker, was fined 40s and costs for using alum for adulterating bread. Waitaba, Saturday. The bodies of Ttirrell and Gollop were recovered last night, and a diligent search is now being made for Tate. Waxgandi, Friday night. At the races today the Maiden Plate was won by Astronomer, Petruchio 2, Randwick 3.— Hurdle Race: GreyMomus I, Banshee 2. Auckland, Saturday. A fire broke out in a small shop at the market entrance. The contents were destroyed, but the fire was quickly battered out. Hulme and Morgan's large store at Makatara was to-day destroyed by fire. It was insured in the Imperial Ofliee for £1,000.