TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
{Per Press Agency .) LATEST EEOM~ AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, September 22. The Wakatipu sailed this afternoon. The schooner Atlantic found bottom up, was towed into Newcastle yesterday night. Her cargo was timber. Adelaide flour, £l2 10s ; wheat, 5s 6d ; oats very plentiful, price unsettled ; candles, 9;]d to lOd. For Henuessy’s case holders are asking 30s 6d to 31s, quarters, 7s ; rice about £2l 10s to £22 ; company’s sugars, price £36.
INTERPROVINCIAL.
Auckland, September 22. Fat cattle, 323 to 40s per hundred ; beat wether*, 225. Flour, £l3 10s; bran, £7 ; pollard, £7 ; oatmeal, £l4 ; wheat, 5s 6d ; oats, 2s 9d ; barley, 4s ; maize, 4s 6d ; potatoes, £4 10s ; hams and, bacon, 6d ; cheese, 9d ; butter, Is. The schooner Agnes, lost at the Chathama, was insured for £2OOO in the South British, but partly re-insured. Napibk, September 22.
Tenders are invited for the reclamation and formation of streets in Napier town and swamp; tenders to be opened at noon on November Ist.
The skull and other portions of a human body were found yesterday in Scully’s Gully by workmen quarrying stone for the Napier harbor works. It was buried about a foot under surface. Supposed to be a Maori. It is evident from the decayed state of the bones, that the body must have been buried there many years. At the volunteer parade last evening a letter from Mr Close was read by Captain Routledge, suggesting that the corps should form a fire brigade. It was agreed that the corps give co-operation and assistance at fires to protect property and preserve order, but not to act as a salvage corps. New Plymouth, September 22.
Dry cows, £6 ; store cows, £6 7s fid ; two-year-old steers, £5 2s fid ; working bullocks, £22 10s ; small hoggets, 7s 9d. The stallion President was withdrawn at' £l5O. The imported stock from Auckland did not arrive in time for the sale.
The first tapping at the iron works will take place to .night.
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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 706, 23 September 1876, Page 2
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