TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 846, 10 March 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

—.— ♦ {Per Press Agency .) LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. • [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, March 9. Commercial matters generally are unchanged. Adelaide wheat is held for 7s, New Zealand, 6s 6d. Adelaide flour, £l6 to £l7. It is rumored that the Governor will grant a dissolution if supplies are granted. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 9. In reply to a deputation, Hon P. Whitaker said the Government would shortly open land at the Thames for settlement. The railway commissioners have recommended the extension of the railway to the wharf, also that tickets be sold in shops, and that there be cheaper Saturday and Sunday trains, Beef is quoted at a shilling higher per hundred, and sheep at lower rates. Adelaide flour, £lB ; southern, £l7 ; sharps, £8 10s ; bran, £6; potatoes, £4 ; oats, 2s lOd ; maize, 4s 9d ; jams, 8a; bacon, 8d to lOd ; cheese 7d.

Arrived— Flirt and Nellie, from Lyttelton; Dayspring, from South, Taranaki, March 8.

The agricultural statistics for 1877 are published :—Holdings, 715 ; wheat, 10161 acres; oats (grain), 711 acres; barley, 48 acres ; grass, 83,340 acres ; potatoes, 596 acres ; other crops, 268 ; total, 85,158 ; total increase of acres under crops, 21,584.

The reported meeting at Waitara will not, it is said, take place Wellington, March 10.

The subscriptions raised here towards the presentation to Capt John McLeau, amount to one hundred and fifteen guineas, and they are still coming in. It is believed that about one thousand pounds will be subscribed in this colony altogether. Dunedin, March 9. Hon Donald Reid arrived in Dunedin this morning. Bank of New Zealand, £l9 10s ; Colonial Bank, £1 16s; New Zealand Insurance shares, £4 10s; National, £1 10s ; South British, £4 10s, The wheat market continues in rather an unsettled state, but some large contracts have been made for forward delivery. Prime samples are quoted from 5s 6d to 5s 7d ; medium, 5s to 5s 4d per bushel; oats are in good enquiry, at for milling samples 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; feed, 2s 4d to 2s 5d per bushel ; barley, none of the new crop is yet forward.

{From a correspondent of the Press.) Dunedin. March 9.

Messrs Helmuth, Swartz & Co, telegraphing on the 6th of March, say : —“ The total quantity catalogued to date was 108,000 bales. Home and foreign buyers act with much reserve. For bulk grease and fleece prices become gradually lower, particularly tor scoured faulty and inferior grease, Prices for superior fleece and grease are more regular.”