TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 546, 18 March 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency.') LATEST PROM AUSTRALIA. * [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, March 17. Heavy rain has fallen. There is a probability that the drought has broken up. The steamer Dunbar has arrived in MelMelbourne all wel l , fifty days out. Palmer advices report the discovery of new goldfields sixty miles from Cooktown, richer than anything yet discovered. INTBRPROVINCIAL. Queenstown, March 17. The Golden Era, a sailing boat, was upset on the Lake yesterday. Two men were drowned ; one saved. Wellington, March 17. Wheat, nominal ; Christchurch, 3s 9d to 4s ; milling, 4s 9d ; oats, 01d,2s 6d to 2s 9d ; new, none in the market, 2a to 2s 3d ; ma : ze, 4s to 4s 6,d ; bran, lOd to lid ; pollard. 6s ; hams. Is Id I bacon, lid ; cheese, 9d to lOd; butter, Is to Is 2d, very little salt in the market ; flour, old, scarce, £l2 ; good brands new, £lO 15s to £ll. Nelson, March 17, Mrs Scott, of Tabaka, was found the other day with a gun resting across her, and the top of her head blown off. The jury returned a verdict of determined suicide. It is a most painful case. The husband has been drinking for some time psst, and went home on a Sunday in delirium tremens. His wife is twenty-nine years old. Much indignation is felt at the Bev 0. Noon, English clergyman, refusing to read the burial service■ Port Chalmers, March 17, The ship Wellington, from Glasgow, with immigrants, is at the Heads. Sickness is reported, but its nature is unknown. Dunedin, March 17. At the City Court, Louis Basch was discharged to-day on a charge of embezzling £5, the property of the Colonial Building and Investment Society. The argument intheTaiaroa salvage case is concluded. Deputy-Judge Williams has reserved his judgment, A strong south-east gale is blowing at sea.