TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 658, 29 July 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(JPer Press Agency.')

LATEST FKOM ATJSTKALIA.

| By Submarine Cable.J Sydney, July 28

Kerosene, Is lid to 2s Id ; case brandy, 31s ; quarters, 7s 3d to 7s Gd ; Adelaide flour, £l2 to £l2 5s 6d ; New Zealand oats, 2s 5d to 2a 6d ; rice, £l7 to £2O. The reported massacre of the crew of the May Queen is untrue, the vessel having arrived safely at Brisbane with laborers. The departure of the Zealandia is postponed till to-morrow. Melbourne, July 28. Mr McKean has been expelled from the Assembly for making a statement damaging to the character of the members. Adelaide, July 28. The Court of Inquiry has cancelled the certificates of the master of the Lightning for drunkenness. Roberts scored a break of 270 last night, INTERPROVINOIAL* Auckland, July 28. Flour, £l2 10s ; sharps, £7 10s; potatoes, £4 5s to £4 10a ; oats, 2s 6d ; maize, 4s lOd to 53 ; bacon and hams, lOd ; butter, lOd ; cheese, 9£d ; oatmeal, £l4. Fat cattle, 30s ; inferior, 25s ; fatsheep, 3fd. It is reported that Caes, supposed to have been drowned from the steamer Taranaki between Lyttelton and Wellington, has turned up safe in Auckland. He has not been to see his wife, who, owing to reports current, has asked the police to institute inquiries. Wellington, July 28. An accident occurred on the Wellington and Masterton railway to-day. The engine of the down train from the Upper Hutt ran ofi the line. The driver was severely but not dangerously hurt. No other casualties occurred. The engine was capsized and considerably damaged. The Gazette to day notifies the Queen s permission for Mr W. H. Reynolds to retain the title of honourable within the colony of New Zealand. Messrs Bates and Howard, lessees of Theatre Royal, have also leased the Oddfellows' Hall for the next six months, but not Flour overstocked, £rr~"to f BM fc w , 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; maize, 4s 3d to 4s 9d ; bran soiree, Is, Is Id, to Is 2d ; pollard, £7 ; hams, 10£d to lid ; bacon, 9d to lOd ; cheese, 9£d; potatoes, 60s to 70s.

Sailed—Arawata for Lyttelton at 3 p.m. Passengers for the Coast—Mrs Tuesg, and family, Messrs Thompson and Anderson. Dunedin, July 28. Mr James Adam, late Otago immigration officer at home, returned yesterday, his engagement having expired.

The Peninsula and Ocean Beach railway is being pushed on. A champagne luncheon was held in the Walton park coal mine yesterday. It is suggested to the harbour board to carry out the proposed system of harrowing the bar.

Sales of Bank of New Zealand shares, £lB 5s ; Colonial Bank, £1 133 ; National Bank, £3 14s; National Insurance, £1 4s; Standard Insurance, 12s 3d. Bank, £1 12s; National Insurance, £1 3s 6d ; Standard Insurance, 12?; Mosgiel Woollen, £1 15s. Sellers—Colonial Bank, £1 13s; Shipping Company, £4 4s; New Zealand Insurance, £3 17s; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, old £4 5s ; new issue, £2 ; money, 8,9, and 10 per cent, according to amount. Arrived—Ship Norval, at the Heads, eighty-five days from London ; all well.

{From a correspondent of the Press.) TIMAKU, July 28. A fire broke out at three o'clock this morning in the office of Messrs Gedye and White, coal merchants. The framework of the building was of wood, and the covering of iron, the dimensions being ten feet by twelve. The alarm was given shortly after the fire broke out, but before the brigade arrived the building was nearly down. It stood about 4ft from B. Beece's ironmongery store, and the fire not only greatly endangered this building, but did considerable injury to the stock. As soon as possible after the fire wss observed, water was poured on Mr Recce's building, by buckets, supplied from a tank on the premises. Notwithstanding strong efforts, the woodwork of the building, which was covered with galvanised iron, caught fire, and the heat was so great as to unsolder a quantity of tinware and melt other material. The injury in Mr Reece's building was caused by the water. Nothing was saved from Messrs Gedye and White's office, the stock comprising the papers that had accumulated since they commenced business. Mr fleece is the heaviest loser. He is insured, but Messrs Gedye and White are not. A stove was left alight in the office the previous evening, and the fire is Bupposed to have originated from it,