TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 559, 3 April 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND T STRALIA. <• [By Submarine Cable.] ENGLAND. London, March 29, The San Francisco mail has been delivered. The colonial wool sales opened yesterday. Upwards of 8000 bales were offered, Victorian and South Australian preponderating. Biddings commenced with spirit, but prices show a slight decline, AUSTRALIA. Sydney, March 31. The Easby has arrived at Newcastle. April 1. Our Executive Philadelphia Commissioner thinks a mistake was made in including a Fijian port in the Pacific service, and suggests the Bay of Islands as the port of call for New Zealand, and thinks the line will work under difficulties while New Zealand has to join at Kandavu. Hennessey’s brandy, quarters, 6s 6d ; case, considerable enquiry, large parcels sold at about 30s. Sugars Company’s No. 1 counters, unchanged. Tobacco—Black swan brand, Is fid to Is 6d, in trade parcels. Kerosene —2s to 2s 2d. New Zealand malt is offering at fis. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, April 1, It is rumoured that a tender for the extension of the Kaipara railway will soon be called for, Wellington, April 1. Arrived—Ocean Beauty, from London, after a passage of 120 days from Gravesend, and 116 days from land to land. She experienced baffling winds throughout the voyage. She brings 1000 tons of cargo consigned to Messrs Turnbull and Co. Arrived—Waipa, from London, 103 days out, with 188 immigrants, all well. She had a fine passage throughout. Eeepton, April 2. A monster meeting of miners and business people was held last night at Reefton, when the resistance of the miners to the Energetic and other companies attempting the reduction of wages was approved, and it was unanimously resolved to subscribe ample funds to assist their action, and a committee was formed. The meeting was \ ery enthusiastic and determined. Dunedin, April 1. The Otago Schoolmasters’ Association has declined to agree with the resolutions passed by the so-called New Zealand Certificated Teachers’ Association, they having had no opportunity of expressing an opinion thereon. Nearly twenty skilled pottery hands nominated for the Milton pottery works are now unemployed in consequence of the stoppage of work. They cannot get any employment, in the Tokomariro district, and have seventy persons depending on them. A deputation from them waited on the Superintendent, who is endeavoring to provide work.