ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1027, 10 November 1871, Page 2

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

■ — " :♦ . ■ . - ; .-. [per greville's telegraph company, : reuter's agents.] Nelson, Nov. 9. The Chicago fire ia believed to be the work of incendiaries. Two men were caught firing the buildings, and were shot. A great gale was blowing during the fire. In reply to a letter signed W. H., Dunedin, the News of the World sasy that public school teachers, in California, can only be appointed under the certificate of . " the Examining Board. Female teachers are generally employed, and in San Francisco there are more applications than offices, and strangers have no chance. The minimum salaries of female teachers is 67£d0l per month ; males, from 125d0l to 75d0l monthly, but chiefly at the latter figure. A case of cholera has occurred in Newcastle. Two steamships, of 4600 and 4800 tons, are building on the Clyde for the American trade. . , :i . The Queen suffers from rheumatism in ' the foot and an abscess on the neck. The wheat harvest in England is nine to ten bushels- per acre. This is below; '• an average crop. ~ The Mercantile Agency Circular recommends the formation, in London, of a * Whale Fishing Company for New Zealand waters. New Zealand sixes, L 18 9; consolidated, March and September, LlO9 to Llll, exdividend ; business done up to Lll3-; - - ditto, June and December, Llll to Lll3. - Fives, LIOO to LlOl. Wool, compared with last year's prices, shows a large advance. Lincoln hogs, 26d, ditto ewes 24d, against I7d and 14$ d I last year Irish hogs, 25d ; ditto wethers, 24d against 16|d and lSd ; skins show 50 * per cent, advance ; Kauri gum shows an improvement.