TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 675, 18 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable.] _ Sydney, August 17. The Australia arrived last night, and was quarantined, x Melbourne, August 17. The woman who assaulted Lady Bowen was found to be insane. An entire cargo of New Zealand oats have been sold at 3s Id. The Suez mail steamer reached the bay today, The Kingarooma sails oa, Saturday with the New Zealand wails,

INTERPROVINCIAL.

AUCKLAND, August 17. The Loan and Mercantile Agency have received the following further particulars by cable: —“ Though the wool sales opened at an average decline of 2d to 3d on the last sales, they closed at an average improvement of o£d to Id on the last sale prices. Sales comprise about 40'-),000 bales, of which about 11,000 have been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. There is a moderate demand on French account, but the German demand is dull. The prospects for the next sales are improving. The tallow market is quiet—Mutton, 425; beef, 40a; New Zealand wheat, 50s per 4961b5. • -Napier, August 17.

A woman named Mary Langham died yea terday under suspicious circumstances. Her body bears marks of violence. At the inquest to-day the evidence showed that her husband had kicked and beaten her on Friday, inflicting injuries at the back of the head. The jury returned a verdict of “ Manslaughter” against him. Wellington, August 17. The City Council this afternoon considered the reflections made last night by Mr Wakefield with regard to Wellington and the demonstration got up for Sir J. Vogel, The purport of his remarks was, that after having deplored the removal of the seat of Govern ment from “ a noble city" to “ a brummagem collection of wooden matchboxes"’ as one of; the greatest mistakes ever made, and an attempt to force prosperity where prosperity would not] exist, he wont on to oay that in Wellington there had been got up to order a so called demonstrati mof working men. It was impossible for a lot of loafers on the beach at Wellington to be recognised as what they claimed to be when they .assembled, and said “we are working men.” It represented a lot of nobodies who could not do a day’s work to save their souls. The City Council have drawn up a resolution of reprobation, which they intend laying before the Speaker, and a meeting of working men is proposed to be - held on Friday, to consider the language used by Mr Wakefield. Wellington, August 18.

The Gazette to-day notifies that the new lighthouse just erected on Cape Fouhvind will be lighted on the Ist September. Dunedin, August 17.

Messrs Cargill, Gibbs and Co. have received the following cable telegram, dated London, July 29th;—‘‘The attendance of home and foreign buyers at the wool sales has increased. The competition is animated, and prices show an average of fully one penny advance, compared with the lowest rates of the present series. The rise is not pronounced for New Zealand fleeces. The date of the commencement of the next series is not fixed.”