LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2147, 26 June 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[press agency.! ; ; New Plymouth, June 25. 1 The Council is still sitting, but is en--gaged with purely local matter. A resolution was passed in favor of waiting to see what measure Government brought down before deciding to express an opinion that it is desirable to abolish the Provinces. Christohtjroh, June 25. I Market quotations, free on board at Lyttelton— Wheat, 4s; oats, 3s 3d; bar-! ley, 5s 3d to 53 6d ; potatoes, L 4 10s to L 5; cheese, 10d ; butter, Is 3d to Is 4d ; oats are scarce; and millers, are getting short of wheat. TiMARxr, June 25. The Timaru derald publishes a long letter from James Smith, in reply to Macassey, which all the three Dunedin papers refused to publish. Also his leader on the state of the bar at Dunedin, which says, mUr alia, "If the charges brought against Macassey be true, he richly deserves to be ignominiously expelled from the profession of the law." Dunedin, June 25. An altercation, which led to exchange of blows, took place, last evening between Robert Gillies, one of the Directors of the Times Company, and James Smith, barrister. The dispute is said to have been caused by the Times refusing to insert a letter written by Smith. Wellington, June 25. The Chief Justice has given a decision which settles the question of the liability of mail coaches to pay toll, by dismissing the appeal case, Young y.Regina.