BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4205, 18 August 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Auckland, August 17. The Loan and. Mercantile Agency Corapany have received the following further particulars by cablegram in reference to tho wool market Though the wool sales opened at an average decline of from 2d to 3d on last sales, they closed at an average improvement of M to Id on the last sale prices. The sales comprise about 400,000 bales, of which about 11,000 have been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. There is a moderate demand on tho French account, but tho German demands are dull. The prospects for the next sales are improving. The tallow market is quiet, mutton being at 425, beef 40s. New Zealand wheat is quoted at 50a per 49Gibs.”

m, August 18. Tbe large schooner, bottom upwards, reported off Amuri, is believed to be the Auckia.ud schooner Clematis. All lives are supposed to bo lost. Captain Clarke, Campbell (mate), tour seamen, and one passenger (Giles, a butcher), comprised those on board. he captain has left a wife and four children, and Giles’s wife is in Auckland. The Clemads is insured in the New Zealand, office for L 1,200, bus the cargo is uninsured. IShc was owned by Messrs Cashmere and Roomson.

The Royal has bean leased to John Hall for two years. iho Star Queen, from Lyttelton tc-lay, reports fearfully heavy southerly weather icr five days, from the 3rd inst., and having passed a quantity of floating timber southeast of Last Cape.

T , p-x n Welu August I? • , e , , Council this afternoon considered the reflc' jC l on .tj made by Mr Wakefield witn monstration up in honor of iSir Julius Vogm are T'iie purport of his remarks v.as (airhaving stated that he deplored tne i\, mova 2 0 f tliseat of Government from a , ‘noble city” to “a Brummagem collection of wooden match-boxes j. s one of the greatest mistakes ever mat’ 0 , and an attempt to force pro-pentv whore prosperity would not exist) thA-t in Wellington there had been got up to order a so-called demonstration of working men, but that it was impossible for a lot of loafers on the beach at Wellington to bo rcoosmfied as what they claimed to be when tbey as'-*

save their souk” _ Tim City Council ha- ro drawn up a resolution of reprobation, whi eh they intend laying before the Speaker, an $a

meeting of -working men is proposed to be held on Friday, to consider the language used by Mr Wakefield. August 18. The ‘Gazette’ to-day notifies that the mw lighthouse just ertatod on Cape Foulwl ul will be lighted on September 21,

CUKISTCIIUBCII, August 18, The Acclimatisation Society expect to hitch out 20,000 trout this season. The Provincial Government have bought an extra piece of land required for public buiknngs, thus removing the last point of di-pate between them and the General Government, who will no ,v have plans prepared forthwith.

(.From our o r n Correspondent.)

JN'aitek, August 17. Great excitement has been earned here on account of a woman named Loughau having d e l on Tuesday owi 'g to the brutal treat ment of her husband on the previous Friday. lie had kicked her in the street on her head, and otherwise shamefully maltreated her. An inquest was held to-day, when the jury brought in a verdict of "Manslaughter.” Had it not been for the Inspector of Police demanding an inquiry a certificate would have been granted by her doctor stating that death was caused by a serious fit of apoplexy. Loughau was a soldier in the 14th regiment, and is a very excitable character. They have a large family. A post mortem examination is now being held on the body, De Murska is drawing crowdd houses. There was LISO in the house last night, and quite a furore was created. August 18. Longhan was charged to-day by the Inspector of tho Police at the Resident Magistrate’s Court with wilful murder. The case was remanded until Wednesday, I am creditably informed that the post mortem examination shows that the woman’s back was broken from kicks given, her by her husband, and that the skull was crushed in.