LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 91, 2 December 1843, Page 363

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

The cargo of cattle by the Gannet from Twofold Bay, consigned to Messrs. Beit and Sons, which has already been some months in the colony, were offered for sale by auction on Wednesday last; and those which were sold realized satisfactory prices. About thirty-five heifers fetched from £8 to £12 a head. Steers from. £11 to £13. Although there were present several bidders for horses, only one was sold, a powerful draught horse, which was knocked down at seventy guineas. We understand that several cows were purchased by labouring people, in consequence of the facilities which Messrs. Beit have afforded them of making good the porchaae-raoney by instalments. We learn from Captain Taylor, of the Catherine Jobnstone, that the Bishop of New Zealand came down the Wanganui in a canoe, on Monday week last, and proceeded thence to New Plymouth; from which place, we understand, it is lordship's intention to come direct to Nelson.

In a letter from Naw Plymouth, received here a few days since, a highly favourable account is given of the crops. Barley is bei»ig grown to some extent, and promises well, The great drawback is the scarcity of money — an evil . which can be remedied only by the creation of as export, which we hope our friends there may ' soon possets. On Thursday night Nelson was visited by one of the heaviest gales that has been felt hero since the formation of the settlement. Fortu astsly it was of very brief duration, and did but little mischief beyond carrying away the white buoy at the entrance of the harbour.