WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 506, 20 August 1902, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

COMMERCIAL,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. The Agent-General lias cabled as follows 10 the Agricultural Department .- London, iSth August. There has been

no alteration in the mutton market since last week. There is a better tone in the

lamb market. The average price for New Zealand lamb, Canterbury brand, is jd ; New Zealand lamb other than Canterbury, 4 7 Sthsd. The beef market is firm. The stocks of New Zealand beef on hand are light. New Zealand hinds are at 5 3-Sthsd, fores 411. The hemp market is firm. The price to day for good and fair Wellington grade on spot is L 34, September and November shipments L3i 10s. RETURNING OFFICERS.

Advice has been received from Capetown that the following have left Capetown for New Zealand .-—Captains Lucky and Potter by the Bungaree ; Captain Rhodes by the Paparoa ; Captains Coutts and Balrymple, and Lieutenant Roddick by the Suevic. RAILWAY TENDERS.

The tender of C. Nixon and Langlarids and Co., of LS6BI, has been accepted by the Public Works Department for the erection of a combined road and railwaybridge over the Motueka river, in connection with the Tadmor section of the Midland railway. The highest tender put in was Li 2,737

DIVORCE CASE. The Chief Justice granted a decree nisi in the suit Thomas Porter v. Haumare Porter and Te Rama,