LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 219, 23 August 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Wellington, August 22. Market quotations :— Flour, -£11 103; hams, 9d ; bacon, 8d ; cheese, 7£d, overstocked ; potatoes, £4 10s; butter, lid. The New street tramway will be formally v opened on Saturday, under the auspices of his Excellency the Governor. A trial of the engine and carriage was made yesterday, and the result proved successful. Kumara, August 22. The heaviest fall of snow here this year occurred to-day. There are four inches now On the ground, and it is still snowing. Christchurch, August, 22. Manning, late clerk in the Bank of New Zealand waa brought up .at the.Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, charged with 4 stealing £100, and was committed for trial, bail being allowed—himself in'£3oo, and two sureties ot £150 each. Nelson, August 22. A fire last night totally destroyed Newton's livery stables, Hardy street. It broke out in the loft which waa full of hay, and the whole of the stables were a mass of blaze when first discovered. Five horses were burnt to death, and two so seriously injured that they had to be shot. One of the latter broke ndrift With ita clothea burning, and galloped wildly down Trafalgar street, and made a dash at the door of the Club, smashing the glass en-" trance. The harness and saddlery were all destroyed. They, with the horses were all insured for £300 in National and £300 jn the Norwich Union. The overseer's house and furniture were totally destroyed f ' and were uninsured.