TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 766, 4 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

{Per Press Agency,') LATEST FROM EUROPE [By Submarine Cable.] COMMERCIAL. London, November 25. The attendance at the wool sales is smaller than during the opening days, the tone weaker, and the prices have slightly given way. The wheat market is steady. New Zealand 48s to 525. It is reported that three vessels are loading wheat at San Francisco for Australia. INTEBPROVIN 01AL. Auckland, December 3. The Zealandia has arrived from Kandavau with the English and American mails. Passengers for New Zealand—Hon Mr and Mrs Fox and thirty others. Passengers for Lyttelton—J.Hayhurst, A. Saundersand daughter, Alfred Grey. Cargo for the south, fortyseven packages general goods. She connected with the City of Sydney at Kandavau on the 29th inst. Both steamers left Kandavau on the same day. The Georgia Minstrels and a monster menagerie went on to Sydney. The Zealandia left for the south at five o’clock. The Zealandia arrived at 4.15 this morning with the San Francisco mail. The outward mail left Auckland on the 25th September, arrived at Kandavau on the 29th, transhipped the mails, and left same day, arrived at Honolulu on October 9th, and San Francisco on the 18th, at 10 a.m. Had light winds and smooth sea throughout. Left San Francisco on November Bth, arrived at Honolulu on the 16th, and Kandavau on the 29th, Transhipped the mails to the Zealandia and left the same day for Sydney. Had favorable winds and a smooth sea to Kandavau, thence to Auckland had a fresh breeze and abeam sea. The up and down voyages were considerably within time. A Magisterial inquiry is to be held regarding the wreck of the Peerless. The proprietors of the Auckland papers have resolved not to publish from the Gazette notifications respecting the Auckland provincial district, or telegrams relating thereto, in consequence of the Government declining their tenders, which were sent in at the ordinary advertising scales. Wellington, December 4. The rumour which has been lately current respecting the appointment of Messrs Shearman and Weldon as Commissioners of North and Middle Islands respectively, and that the Hon C. C. Bowen will shortly resign the portfolio of Minister of Justice, with the view of taking the position of Commissioner of Policcofthe Colony, is entirelynufoundcd. Arrived Schooner Herald, from Lyttelton. Dunedin, December 2; Wheat is unchanged. Oats meet with ready sale at 2a 2d to 2s 3d for good to prime feed. Barley is neglected; feeding sorts, 2s 2d to 2s 6d ; malting, nominally at 4s to 4s 3d. The Otago Rifle Association matches commence on Thursday. The prizes are valued at £270, “ Fritz" and “ Chilperic” are drawing large houses. (From our own Correspondent), Dunedin, December 4. At a meeting of the Jockey Club it was decided that from the year 1879 the Dunedin Derby shall be abolished, arrangements having been come to with the Canterbury Club by which the Derby, to be called the New Zealand Derby, and increased to 250 sovs, be run annually at the Canterbury Spring Meeting, and the St Leger in Canterbury done away with and run at the Dunedin March meeting, the stake being increased to 250 sovs.