TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 783, 23 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

(Per Fress Agency.') LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable,] COMMERCIAL. London, December 19. The wool market is quiet, but prices continue firm. Warehouse charges are reduced by 15 per cent. Wheat is quiet; prices remain unchanged. New Zealand hemp is dull of sale at £l9 to £25, realised at recent sales. AUSTRALIA. Sydney, December 22. The Tararualeft Melbourne yesterday. COMMERCIAL. Sydney, December 23. Case brandy, 33s to 33a 6dj qrs, 10s 3d to 10s 6d; rice, nominal. Adelaide flour, J£l3 5s

to £l4 10s, steady, Adelaide wheat, 5a 9d; New Zealand wheat, none in the market; Ne-v Zealand oats, ditto; Barrett’s twist, Is 5d to Is 6d; black swan, Is 7d; sugar, £3B; Belmont sperms, lOd to lO^d. INTERPROVINCIAL, Auckland, December 22. Adelaide flour, £18; star, £l7; superfine, £l6; sharps, £8 10s; bran, £7; bacon, 8d to lOd; cheese, 8d to 9d; barley, 3a 6d; butter, 8d to lOd; Mellor’s sauce per dozen halfpints, 8s 6d ; jams, none in the market; bacon in cloth, lo£d. Ourtin has been brought down from Papakura, and lodged in Mount Eden Gaol. The returns for the election for the ridings are not in. At the police court to>day Mary Kane was committed for trial on a charge of killing her female infant. Aerolite has gone slightly lame. Middleton got fever in the feet from standing on board ship ; neither have been out for two or three mornings. The trial trip of the Rotomahana, the first entire ship of any size built in the colony, came off to-day, and was very satisfactory. Her speed was nine knots under easy steam; her engines worked smoothly. There was about two hours and twenty minutes steaming, and no stoppage from hot bearings. The schooner Lovett Peacock will be sold by auction on January sth, for the benefit of whom it may concern. Fat cattle, 6s to 10s lower ; general price, 25s to 27s per hundred ; mutton, 2£d to 2£d. Butcher Boy and Medora were offered for sale to day and withdrawn. New Plymouth, December 22. At the cattle sale the bidding was spirited. Cows, £7 2s 6i to £8 3s; year-old steers, £5 15s to £6 7s 6d ; yearlings, £8 lOsto £3 17s 6d; calves, £2 10s ; working bullocks, £l7 per pair. Mr Arthur Standish has been elected Mayor for the borough of New Plymouth by a large majority. The county elections are coming off with not much excitement. Wellington, December 22. The Gazette to day notifies that the Hon Mr Richardson has been appointed Minister of Public Works for the purposes of the Public Works Act, 1876. Mr William Arthur is appointed Chief Surveyor of Otago, and Mr James Mackerrow Assistant Surveyor-General; and Mr 8. P. Smith, of Taranaki, first geodetical surveyor . Captain Moss and a number of the Central Fire Brigade mustered on the wharf this afternoon to receive the Auckland firemen when they landed. He took them off to the engine house, where luncheon was provided for them, and drove them about the town the remainder of the afternoon.

Produce prices are as follows:—Flour, Hobart Town, unsaleable at £l7 ; Adelaide, £lB 10s to £l9 ; Colonial, £ls to £l6 ; oats, 2s 8d to 3s ; bran, Is; wheat, none ; pollard, 7s ; hams and bacon, B£d to 9Jd ; maize, 4s 6d ; cheese, 7£d to 8d ; potatoes, £6 to £7. Wellington, December 23. The following acceptances have been received for the Wellington Derby, viz: Danebury, Fanny Fisher Colt, and Fallacy. For the Wellington Cup—Guy Fawkes, 9st Gibs; Templeton, 9st 21bs; Tambourini, Bst 91bs; Fishhook, 7st 121bs; Strangbau, 7st Gibs; Danebury, 7st 51bs; Nero, 7st 31bs; Morning Star, 7st 11b; Glenavy, 6st lOlbs; Fanny Fisher Colt, 6st lOlbs; Fallacy, Gst 91bs; Treason,. 6st 71bs; Snowdon Colt, 6st Gibs; Amanda, 6st 31bs; Princess Mary, 6st. Greymouth, December 23. MrF. Hamilton has been elected Mayor by a majority of a hundred, A number of Chinamen on their way to the polling booth were bailed up and not allowed to record their votes. Dunedin, December 23. H. J. Walter was returned unopposed today for High Ward. H. S. Fish was opposed by Messrs Farquhar and Cousins. The folio-wing is the order in which the different Fire Brigade teams will compete on the 26th:—Hose practice—Timaru against Dunedin; Hokitika against Auckland; Ballarat alone, being an odd team. Engine practice—Timaru, Ist; Hokitika, 2nd; Dunedin, 3rd; Auckland, 4th; Ballarat, sth. Hose and ladder practice Dunedin, Ist,; Timaru, 2nd; Ballarat, 3rd; Hokitika, 4th, Auckland, sth. In the matter of Joseph Mackay, a bankruptcy case, Mr Justice Williams yesterday decided that the discretionary power not to adjudge a debtor, even if an act of bankruptcy was proved, lay with the Court, and might be exercised under certain circumstances. The discretionary power was not given in the previous Act, nor is it contained in the English Bankruptcy Act. Three persons were yesterday fined for having neglected to register the births of their children within the specified time. The Government intend to enforce this law in future The Hon W. H. Reynolds is said to be a candidate for the vacancy which has occurred on the directory of the Colonial Bank. Timaru, December 22. Bradley’s crew of South Canterbury men have decided to enter a boat for the Interprovincial champion four-oared whaleboat race and for the pair-oared race at the Lyttelton regatta. They will pull in Messrs Mclntosh and Graham’s boat, which competed at the Lyttelton regatta last year. The new Mayor, Mr George Cliff, gives a mayoral dinner at the Club Hotel on Tuesday evening next.