TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 682, 26 August 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable.l Sydney, August 25. It is understood that the Governor has received a dispatch stating that war between England and Russia was imminent. The City of Sydney sailed for Kandavau at three. The captain of the schooner Vibilia writes denying the statement in the Auckland papers by the mate of the same vessel. Kerosene is scarce ; the only shipment expected is held at 2s 3d ; candles, 9|d ; Adelaide flour, £ll to £l2 ; wheat. 6s 3d ; New Zealand flour, £ll to £ll 5s ; oats are plentiful, New Zealand, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; Hennessy’s, quarts, 7s. A lengthy meeting of the Cabinet was held yesieruay, it is supposed with reference to the San Francisco mail service. Melbourne, August 25, The second mate of the Barrabool has been acquitted of culpable neglect in the late collision, but committed for trial for disobeying the captain’s orders. GOLD DISCOVERY ON THE COAST. Hokitika, August 26. Gold has been found in every direction on the Kutnara ; five grains to the dish in 13ft sinking. IJNTERPROVINCIAL. AUCKLAND, August 25. The Acadia, from Mercury Bay to Lyttelton, was dismasted ; all the deck swept away. One man—W. Goodman —washed overboard. The Pretty Jane towed her into Poverty Bay. Maize, 4s 9d to 6s ; oats, 2s 9d to 3s ; flour, £l2 lOs ; sharps, £8 ; bran, £7 ; potatoes, £4 15s ; cheese, 9d ; butter, Is. Fat cattle, 2s 6d to 5s per lOOlbs lower—average, 26s ; fat sheep, £d lower—average, 2fd to 3d. In reply to a resolution adopted by a Whangarei meeting, calling on Sir Robert Douglas to support the separation resolu" tions, the member for Maradeu telegraphed refusing to comply, and offering to resign if the electors as a body wished him to do so. The Waipu electors afterwards held a meeting, and passed a vote of confidence in him, bur, urged the throwing out of the Counties Bill.

Buyers—South British, 555; National, 255; Bank of New Zealand, £lB ss.

Auckland, August 26,

Simonsen’s Opera Company played the “ Hermit’s Bell” last night to a crowded house with great success; they received numerous encores. Madame Simonsen and Signor Morley were cheered. The opera will probably be repeated for some time. Wellington, August 25.

It is understood that Mr Bridge is no longer a director of the National Bank, and that he ceased to be so shortly after his return to London. It is said that his conduct towards the Bank of New Zealand last year has had something material to do with his retirement.

Captain Ferries has requested an official inquiry into the respective duties and responsibilities of commanders of Royal Mail steamers and local pilots on entering New Zealand harbors. Captain Ferries brought the Zealandia into port and alongside the wharf this morning without a pilot. She sails north at 4 p.m. Produce prices—Flour shows a further advance, quoted at £l2 10s to £l3; oats,2s 7d to2s 9d; maize, 4s to 4s 6d; bran, scarce at Is 3d to Is 4£d ; pollard, 7s 6d to 8s ; wheat (milling) no sale ; hams, 9d ; bacon 6d to 9d ; cheese, 8d to 9d ; potatoes, 60s to 70s. Wellington, August 26. The corporation have bought the gasworks for about £40,000. They will also pay the preliminary expenses incurred by the proposed new gas company, the formation of which will now be abandoned.

The Taranaki sails South at 3 p.m. Passengers —Messrs Ebbett, Deckshaw, Hurst, Foldie, Burn, Watkin, Miss King, and Miss Reeves.