AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 294, 18 June 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

. «. (Per Press Association). Sydney, June 17. Sailed — Waihora, for Auckland. Kirby and Bassett are passengers by her. The Public Service Board has effected a saving in the Justice Department computed at i-40,000 per year. Wheat - Obick, 3s 3d to 3s 6d for intercolonial ; local nominal. Flour — New, £10 5s to £10 10s. Oats, quietNew Zealand prime milling, 2s 6d ; prime feeding, 2s 4d to 2s od. Maize, firm, 2s Id. Barley— Cape, 2s lOd to 3sBran,9d; pollard, B£d. Peas Prussian blue, prime, 4s 6d. Potatoes are plentiful and in fair demand ; paime Circular Heads at £2 17s 6d to dt'3. Onions - Victorian, £1 ; New Zealand, £8. Butter—Dairy, 8d to 9d ; factory, 9d to 9|d. Cheese— New Zealand, large prime, 6d to 6£d. Bacon, dull, 4d to 4&d. This Day. Over sixty officers retire from the Justice Department under the Public Service Board's scheme. Fraser and several other prominent officials are among the number. During a row in a Chinese den in Goulburn street, a Chinaman was stabbed to death. Melbourne. This Day. Speight has decided not to proceed j further in his appeal to the Privy Council in the action against the Age. j Sailed — Wakatipu for Bluff. | Brisbane, This Day ] Gl.assey was elected leader of the \ Parliamentary Labor Party. Parliament was opened this afternoon. The Governor's speech was practically - the same as the forecast.