TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
{Per Press Agency LATEST FROM EUROPE * [By Submarine Cable.] MR TALLBRMAN. London, August 5. Mr Tallerman has commenced an action against the Victorian Agent-General with reference to Australian meat. COMMERCIAL. London, August 5. Colonial securities are firm. Consols, 96|. Discount—Bank rate two, in the open market one. The reserve is nineteen and half millions. THE WOOL MARKET. London, August 5. Wool is firm, and prices have improved from Id to 2d above the lowest point. There is some competition for greasy, which shows the greater advance. 325,000 bales have been sold, THE WHEAT MARKET. London, August 6. Harvest operations have begun, forced to some extent by the weather. The wheat market is dropping. Australian, 48s to 49s j New Zealand at 46s to 48*. NEW ZEALAND FLAX. London, August 5, New Zealand flax, £l9 to £22. SHIPPING. London, August 5. Arrived—Oamaru. INTERPROVINOIAL. Auckland, August 18. The large schooner, bottom upwards, reported off Amuri, is believed to be the Auckland schooner, Clematis. All Uvea are supposed to be lost. Captain Clarke, Campbell the mate, four crew, and one passenger (Giles, a butcher), comprised the whole. The captain has a wife and four children, and Giles a wife in Auckland, The vessel was insured in the New Zealand Office for £I2OO ; her cargo was uninsured. She was owned by Cashmore and Robinson. The New Theatre Royal has been leased to John Hall for two years. The Star Queen, from Lyttelton, to-day reports fearfully heavy southerly weather for five days from the 3rd instant, _ and having passed a quantity of floating timber imith-ea*t of the East Cape; Dunedin flour, £l2 10s; Christchurch, £l2; pollard, £7; bran, £6 10s; oats, 2s 7d; the barley market is glu'ted; maize, 4s 6d; butter, Is; cheese, lOd; hams and bacon, lOd; oatmeal, £l4 9-; pearl barley, £23; fat cattle, 25s to 333; fat sheep, 3|d, Napier, August 18.
John Langeham, against whom the coroner's jury yesterday returned a verdict of manslaughter, was brought before Mr Sealey, 11. M., today, and charged on the ir formation of the inspector of police with the wilful murder of his wife. The case was remanded until Wednesday.
W ELLINGTON, August 19.
Sailed -Alhambra for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers at 1. Passengers—Mr Dickson and Miss Thompson. Hokitika, August 18.
Three claims have struck good payable gold on the other side of the creek, at Kumara. There are rumors that a new lead of coarse gold has been struck. Bluff, August 19. The Arawata arrived at 11 am ; left Melbourne on the 14th.
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Globe, Volume VI, Issue 676, 19 August 1876, Page 2
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