TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1008, 18 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[EEUTER'a SPECIAL TKLEGRAMS TO THB PEESB AGENCY.]

The Wool and Wheat Markets. London, September 15. Bank rate of discount three. Colonial securif ies. The Indian 'fainine relief fund amounts to £16,000. There; was a good attendance at the wool sales yesterday. Superior wools commenced with dull prices. Sydney fleece, except the best, depressed. Nineteen thousand and iive hundred bales were catalogued. Seventeen thousand were withdrawn. The sales close on October 4th. Wheat has advanced. Australian, 67s to 60s ; New Zealand, sound, 57s to 60s. Arrived—Alexander Duthie. AUSTRALIAN. [pee peess agency.] Sydney, September 17. Arrived—Wakatipu. Sailed—Tainroa, for New Caledonia. On Saturday, White's ironmongery store hi Brisbane was destroyed by fire. The damage to the stock was very great. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £3OOO. [Per Arawata, via. Bluff."] Melbourne, September 12. The Land Tax Bill has been passed by the Assembly, and has been sent to the Council, where it was read a first time without criticism. The Government declined to permit any alterations in committee, and the measure was pushed hurriedly through. An attempt made to make mortgages bear a portion of the tax was not listened to. The Mining on Private Property Bill passed through committee in the Assembly, and some progress was made with the estimates. In dealing with the new taxes, the duties on gunny bags and sugar mats were struck out, and those on cornsacks and woolpacks were passed. The recent rainfall has had a most beneficial effect. It has been very general in New South Wales. It is not yet sufficient in Vicl oria, but already its influence is felt in business. The Macduff's passengers have been released from quarantine. INTERPROYINCIAL. Nelson, September 17. In the District Court to-day W. Harvey was convicted of perjury, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Blenheim, September 16. Yesterday Richard Moss, when returning from duck shooting, was met by his child, who, while walking beside him, pulled the trigger. The shot entered Mr Moss's right side, passing out above the scapula. He died in a few hours. Ktthaea, September 17. Patrick Scully, a miner, was killed this morning in a cham north of the Teremakau. Wellington, September 17. The Agent-G-eneral has advised the sailing of the ship Rakaia with 293 emigrants for Canterbmy.