The Globe. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 537, 8 March 1876, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1876. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(JPer Press Agwiey.} LATEST FROM EUROPE AND ,A.T ISTEALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] London, March 6. The San Francisco mail has been delivered. The wool sales closed dull. 170,000 bales were catalogued. 40,000 bales were exported. Combing averaged last February prices. The probable stock at the next sales is 250,000 bales. Arrived—The Timaru, from New Zealand. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, March 7. Arrived—The City of Melbourne and Italy from Lyttelton. Melbourne, March 7. To-day 13,000 bushels of New Zealand oats were sold at 2s 9d in bond. Arrived—Young Dick, from Lyttelton. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 7. The Superintendent has instructed his solicitor to try a friendly suit against the General Government for the recovery of tho capitation allowance stopped to pay the interest on the railway. The immigration agent reports the demind for agricultural laborers and single girls is in excess of the supply. Buyer;—National Bank, 735; National Insurance, 245; Colonial, 30s; Beach, 70s; (Shipping, 775; Bank of New Zealand, £l7 10s. Sellers—Fiji, 40s ; South Bmisb, 56s ; Southern Cross newspaper, 1203, 200 s paid. Wellington, March 8. Arrived—Tui, from Kaikoura and Lyttelton. The ship Avalanche has cleared for London, with a cargo of 5411 bales of wool and sundries, valued at £115,643. She takes a large number of passengers, including the Hon Dr Renwich, Mrs Renwich, and E. McDonnell. On Thursday, the 17th February, two young men were out fishing at the Heads in a lifeboat, with two loaves and two bottles of water. A gale came on, and blew them out to sea. Nothing being heard of them since, they were given up for lost, but they turned up this morning. It appears their boat swamped three times during the gale, and their bred and water were spoiled. They were knocking about without food or water until picked up near Napier, on the following Sunday, by the schooner Augusta. Dunedin, March 7. The Tairoa case commenced to-day, but is not completed. The Chief Commissioner of Police has in formed the Licensing Bench that the present licensing system is working exceedingly well, causing the erection of a better class of houses. He had no complaints to make for the past quarter. The secretary of the Harbor Board drew attention to incorrect information in the "New Zealand Pilot " respecting tho approaches to the Dunedin harbor. The Board agreed to request the harbor master to correct the information, which had not been amended for twenty years. The Marionettes Company left by the Hawea,