INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 233, 11 October 1878, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

i l (Per Press Agency.) I Auckland, Oct. 10. ■ 'Mt'Studnolm ; has : purdia's'ed'' half of T. and J. ■" Morrin's interest in the Pi ako. Swamp Estate for £3.8,0001 Masefield's foundry, lias finished a. pair of massive east-iron gates) for the King of Tongapatau.-'i i"' ' ■' •• Wellington,'' Oct. 10. Council rejected. Wife's Sister's Marriage Bill on division by 18 •to 9. The new clause of the Municipal? , Corporations Bill, fixing the minimum width of private streets was agreed to. The Committee of Public Reserves Bill provides for the sale of, certain railway reserves in Canterbury and Westport, should said part purchase money be reserved for lands. Market quotations.—Flour, colonial, £11 to £11 10s ; oats, 4s 9d j hams,

9d : bacon, 8d ; cheese, ; potatoes, £4:; butter, lid to Is for guaranteed quality. The Loan and Mercanfle Agency report under date London, Sept. 26 : The wool sales progress flatly, The competition by both home and foreign buyers is dull, Up to date 22:3,000 bales have been sold. Bleniikiji, Oct. 10. A fire commenced at riidriight last night, and destroyed Penny's Hotel, also an extensive stables and dwellinghouse adjoining. The Temperance Hotel and other buildings were saved by the cxci tions! "of the.brigade, but Gilliug and Co must lose considerably by the hasty removal of stock. The amount oi insurance is.unascertained., . .