LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 761, 8 March 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new zEAiANiJ Press AsSpciilrtotf.j Wellington, Mai ck f; Circuit of the Supreme^Court jsits at Hokftika on Sifit Mtu-cK. :T : i *' , Two members o£ : the. Westland County Council, Mr J. Grimrupnd, Chairman, and Mr R. J. Seddbn are in Wellington with* a view td obtaining from the Government some assistance to the funds of the. Council. Mr R. C. Rdid is also in town 1 on a similar missiou from the Westland Education Board. Mr Reid saw the Minister of Education to=day, and obtained from him a promise of £4OOO. , Dunedin, March 3. Mr Fieming reports : Wheat; 1 3s: 6d to 3s 9d; fowls feed, 3s to 3s, oM J oats, new, 2s 0d to 2i lOd ) old, 3s 3d to ss; barley, 5s 6d to 6s ; feed, 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes, L 5 to L 6 ; 'Hay, new, L 4; old, L 6; chaff, L 4 to L 4 10s per ton ; straw, L2 per ton -; bran,L4 per ton ; flour, L 9 10s to. L 1 0; large bags/ best quality, LlO ; small, LlO 10s per ton; oatmeal, £l2 per ton; ; pearl! bax-ley, L 26 per ton; onions, 9s per cwt j cheese, G£d per lb. Anderson and Co., millers, report flour in sick's, L 9 10s; oatmeal, £2O; pollard, L 5 ; bran, L 4 10s pef ton ; pearl barley, L 2 6; fowls wheat, 2s 6(1 to 3s 3d per bushel ; new oats, 2s 9d to 3s.

Arrived—Arawata, g.s., from Melbourne, via Bluff} Waitaki, s.s., from Oamarn.

for Shag Point,., Arawata for - Lyttelton and Wellington, Janet Ramsay for Catlins River, Palace, barque, for Newcastle, Moa, brig, for Bluff, Waitaki, as., for Oamaru, Owake Belle, for Catlin's River. Auckland, Match £.

Dr Wallis convenes a' meeting of his const : tuent3, he repudiates being a denominationil ist.

Johii Alman, with a string of aliases, has been committed for trial .for forgery at Waikato.

At the Prince of Wales freemason Lodge, Bro, 0. M, Nelson and Bio. Lewis were presented-witb past masters gold jewels.

Hill the Collector of Oustoms at Auckland, held an inquiry inter the conduct of Savory, *he Kaipora pilot, at the instance nf one of his boats crew, the result is not kn >wn here.-

Tlie City West poll fo«H been declared! Groldin said be accepted the position, and would maintain it as a ultra--sec'ularist

Dignan said the cause"-he'■ espouse 1 WflS lint lo3t Vft.

Sbappe a!nd Ansofnie,- \le ( c*nry Bay sYtw mills,- got tO.OOO logs by rains, equal to three Trillion .feet. GfuShire and Larnfanchs Whabeyu mill got a capital drive last night, other mills no particulafd tu hanxL