TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 731, 23 October 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency .) LATEST EEOM AUSTRALIA. • ♦ [By Submarine Cable,] Sydney, October 21, The New Zealand and Australian Land Company have just selected eight selections on the Zanko reserve by volunteer land grants. Case brandy, 33s 6d ; quarters, 7s 9d to Bs. Kerosene, nominal, and short supply. Bice, unaltered. Adelaide flour, £l3 10a to £l4 10s, and the price advancing. Adelaide wheat sales, 6s'3d, prices advancing ; New Zealand oats, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Company’s No 1 sugar, £B6. Sperm candles, unchanged. Melbourne, October 21, A brig came into collision with the steamer Wentworth off Wilson’s Promontory. Captain Paddle towed the disabled vessel into Refuge Cove. INTERPROVINCIAL, Wellington, October 23, The Vogel subscriptions are still coming in, so that a good round sum will be forwarded to him next mail. Captain Fairchild has been placed in command of the Hinemoa. Dunedin, October 21. The case Macandrew v the National Insurance Company is concluded in the Supreme Court. It is a claim for insurance on railway rolling stock, shipped per the Czarewitch, for Sydney, £2650. The defence was the alleged unseaworthiness of the vessel. The defendants, relying on the evidence given by the plaintiff’s witnesses, did not call witnesses. The issue to the jury as to the seaworthiness of the vessel was answered in the affirmative, and the amount claimed allowed. The trial lasted three days. (From a oorresvondent of the Press.) Timaru, October 22. Yesterday, Mr Lawson, the traffic manager of the Canterbury Railways, made an inspection of the Opawa extension, a special train being put on for the purpose. He was accompanied by several members of the Timaru and Gladstone Beard of Works, Mr John Rochfort. engineer to the Board, Mr G. P. Williams, resident engineer, some officials of the railway, and others. The extension from Pleasant Point to the Opawa is about sixteen miles, making the total length of the line from Timaru to the Opawa twenty-five miles and a half. The line is finished from the point to Coal Creek, about four miles from the Opawa, and the remainder of the line will be completed in six or seven weeks. The work, which has been carried on by the Board of Works at an expenditure of about £60,000, reflects great credit upon them and their engineer, Mr Rochfort, and also upon the contractor, Mr B. G. Wright. The Lingards’ performance, which extended over the whole of last week, were very successful. Their season will conclude with Monday evening’s performance.