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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 63, 13 March 1880, Page 2

This is what tbe New Zealand Herald of the 17th instant says : — lt is reported in town that the Union Steamship Company are about to lay on one of their steamers to trade between Levuka and Auckland and Southern ports. The effect of such a step will not prove beneficial to this community, inasmuch as it will ruin the schooner trade, and open the way to Southern produce-^a line of business which has hitherto, so far as New Zealand is concerned, been exclusively 1 ppDflDecl to tbe jpprt ot AuoJslnnfl)

Blenheim was visited last week, according to a local paper, by a regular cloud of mosquitoes, which swarmed round the hotels, shops, and other buildings that were lighted Up. The exterior of the Club Hotel was blackened with them, whilst in tbe Telegraph Office it is no mere figure of speech to aay that they were shovelled out with a dust pan. Tbe sudden nppearance at irregular ir« tervais of the caterpillar pest la accbunted for on the ground that the egg only conicfi" to active vitality during a favorable and what is generally a season of great luxuriance; so it seems that a succession of sun and shower ateauiing the earth thereby hatches the eggs, which we believe, can otherwise lie dormant for many years.