TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 646, 14 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency.)

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AIISTEALIA,

—«. [By Submarine Cable.] DEATH OF THE AGENT-GENERAL. London, June 21. Dr Peatherston is dead. COMMERCIAL. Sydney, June 13. A telegram from London, dated May 25th, reports wool unchanged and hemp held firmly; small parcels sold at an advance. Wheat firmer, New Zealand, 493 to sls. Amved.-*Mataura,

London (via Hong Kong), June 21. The first wool arrivals amount to 407,000 bales. 978,000 were offered. Victoria and New South Wales wool preponderated. The attendance of home and foreign buyers was moderate. The sales were marked by considerable langour, and prices as compared with last series show a fall of fifteen to twenty per cent. Malcomson Brothers of Waterford have failed for a million. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, July 13. The Assembly i 3 discussing the want of confidence motion. The Government are sure of a majority. Melbourne, July 13. James Earle, formerly employed in the National Insurance Company of New Zealand, has been committed for trial on a series of forgeries. The Ministerial programme is not well received by the press.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, July 13. A schooner arrived at the Bay of Islands from New Caledonia, reports that a large French frigate arrived there with 900 convicts. Mr Farnall announces himself a candidate for City West. Messrs Goldie, J. M. Clark, and Hurst are spoken of. The Auckland cricketers have telegraphed agreeing to the new terms for a visit of the English Eleven. The barque Lady Franklin was floated off a bank in the Eaipara, but got aground again. It is expected that she will be successfully floated. Hokitika, July 14. The rush at the Teremakau is now assuming large proportions. A great number of claims on each side of the prospectors are on good gold. Some miles of ground are not yet touched. Over 800 sections in the new township have been taken up, and are now fetching very high prices, thirty-five pounds being refused for some half sections. The tender of Messrs Cameron Brothers, Lyttelton, for the Titan, steam tug, for £4900, has been accepted. No satisfactory tenders for the sailing vessels were received. Duneoin, July 13. A railway hand at Stirling, named John Youn?, was killed to-day, by a truck passing over him. The Railway earnings last month were £9886. The Post Office Savings Bank returns for the quarter are—Deposits, £43,465 ; withdrawals, £18,851. Sales—Bank of New Zealand, £lB 2s 6d ; Colonial Bank, £1 12s ; National Insurance, £1 4s ; Standard, 12s; South British, £2 13s; New Zealand Insurance, 78s. Buyers—Bank of New Zealand, £l7 17s 6d ; Colonial Bank, £1 lis and £1 12s ; National Insurance, £1 3s 6d ; Standard Insurance, 12s. Sellers— Bank of New Zealand, £lB 5s ; National Insurance, £1 4s ; New Zealaud Insurance, 80s.