YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 899, 12 May 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGR AMS

ji ♦ I [by SUBMARINE CABLE. BEK PRESS AGENCY.] | Beeline in the Wool Market. ! London, May S. I The wool sales opened to-day. About seven | thousand bales wore offered, Port Phillip pre- [ pondcratiiig. The attendance was largo, and | the bidding commenced with great spirit, but f prices, compared with lust sales, show a decline | of 10 per cent. | Commercial. / Sydney, May 11. i There is little alteration. Holders of bread * stuffs are very firm. The trade demand is small. Best 'flour, £l9 to £2O ; wheat, Bs, ' no business. , Sailed —Zealandia. 1 INTERPRO VINCI AL. 5 I [Per Press Agency.] ; Auckland, May 11. Fears arc entertained for the safety of the Sarah Pile, which left Kaipara on the 2nd April for Wanganui. There are no tidings here of her arrival. The inquest on the exhumed remains of Mrs Scott, who died at Onehunga in childbirth, was concluded yesterday. The verdict was “ Died from rupture of the uterus, not from malpractice.” The evidence regarding the analysis showed that one thousandth part of a grain of arsenic was found on the lines of • the cloth laid under chin of the corpse, and placed with it in the coffin. The theory set up by the Coroner was that arsenic might have existed in the bottle out of which gingerbeer was given to the patient. A large meeting of licensed victuallers was held last night, when a resolution was carried that it is desirable to abolish outside lamps, and to reduce license fees. The meeting was also in favor of petitioning Parliament for Sunday hours. Colonel Nation has been elected first Mayor of Parnell. Thomas Neallic has been killed at Papakura by a falling limb of a tree. Colonial Bank shares, 41s to 42s 6d ; South British, 80s; National, 30s; Red Queen, 30s fid ; Caledonians double, 62s fid ; Moauatairi closed, sellers 9s to 15s. Wellington, May 11. The Wharf Committee of the City Council met this afternoon and decided not to accept anv tender for wharf extension before Tuesday next, in order to enable the written tenders from Dunedin and elsewhere to arrive, as they were afraid of mistakes in the telegraphic tenders. They also decided that the work should Do carried out in iron-bark, and to accept separate tenders for contracts one and two, if a saving of a thousand pounds could bo effected. Telegrams relating to a tidal wave have been received from the following places

Poverty Bay, Gisbornc, Napier, Lyttelton, j Ikarou, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Bluff. The phenomenon was observed at all the above places this morning after seven, and the rise and fall varies from 3ft. to Bft., winch it rose at Poverty Bay. The ebb and flow each time is described as occupying a different time, between fifteen minutes and an hour. No damage is reported anywhere. Here the vise and fall slackened at mid-day, increased again in the afternoon, but ended altogether about seven. [PBOM A CORRESPONDENT OF THE PRESS.] Dunedin, May 11. Regarding the proposal from Christ - church for a conference on the subject of subsidy for charitable aid to municipalities, the Star says as Duncdin shares pro rata in the cost along with all other local governing bodies in this Provincial district, which is only fair, the movement to be initiated in Canterbury can receive no sympathy from our City Council. The proposal now before the Harbor Board that the import and export docks, shown on the engineer's plan, should form one dock, but that its position be moved a little townwards, gives general satisfaction. The new dock will be exactly one chain nearer town, and will have Stuart street for its southern boundary. A proposition will be made at an adjourned meeting to dredge the northern side of the steamer basin to a depth of 22ft., when the site of the docks is finally determined. The contractor will push on the reclamation work with all possible despatch, to which end he has sent home for five powerful travelling cranes, to be used in connection with the rock-walling contract.