LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 80, 3 April 1875, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Press Agency.] INTER-PROVINCIAL. ; Wanqantji, Saturday. Thomas Anslow was brought up on re- ! mand, charged with arson. A great deal of strong evidence was produced, but the case wa9 again remanded for further evidence. Bail was allowed, but Anslow could find no sureties. Freeman R. Jackson reports as follows:— Fat beef, 25s per lOOlbs; cows, £5 10s to £7 15s; steerß, £6 ss; fa l; cows, £6 10s; heifers, £3 10s to £5; lat sheep, half breds, 10s 3d; ewes, 4s to ss. Horses sell very dull. Auckland, Friday. . , The steamer Star of tbe South, j ust arrived from Fiji, reports a fearful mortality from measles among the natives, who are paralysed

with fear, anil refuse to assist each other. All tbeihead chiefs are dead. . Three hundred died in the island of OValau alone, and in the other 'islands a still greater number. The disease is always followed by dysentery, and has assumed the form of a plague. Severalnative towns are depopulated. At one the bodies lay for some days uncovered, and were mangled by the pigs. The natives only bury the bodies a few inches below, the surface, and the late rains have washed the soil .off, and the smell is tearful. In the island of Angusa a great many natives are reported to be lying dead, as no one will bury them. Trade is at a standstill. The Star of the South returns with very little cargo, no one j being about to take it out of the store and put it on board. The Bum and Sugar Company are erecting machinery. Messrs Brodkack nud Evans have been committed for trial for manslaughter, the natives Having died through their neglect. The South British Company at its approaching meeting will increase its capital from the profits to £50,000, and pay 10 per cent dividend on that, Mr Buckland reports :— Fat sheep, 4Jd ; cattle inactive demand, 30s per lOOlbs; lambs, 8s to 17s 6d. ! The Albion, whaler, was sold to-day for £1000. She was purchased by Captain Daldy on behalf of the Steam Packet Company. Wellington, Friday. Mr O'Shea reports :— Flour, £10 10a to j £11 ; wheat, milling, none: chick, 2s 9d ; j oats, Ss 6d to 3a 7d ; maize, no new, 6s 9d ; potatoes, 5s to 6s ; hams, scarce, Is 2d to Is 3d ; bacon, Is. The Tribune says : — " We have reason to believe that the report by Major Palmer on the subject of the Burveys ot the Colony, which will be laid upon the table .of the Bouse of Representatives next session, will be such as to astonish the public as an exposure of official and professional blundering, and this not in one Province only, but in all alike, Major Palmer is busily engaged in getting his information into shape as he has to return to England by the next San Francisco mail steamer to give his account of the transit of Venus to the Home authorities. The next criminal calendar is unusually heavy, there being thirteen indictments against ten prisoners. The directors ot the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company have decided not to lay up: the steamer Wellington, to put compound engines in her, because the delay would be too long. They will put new boilers in her, and give her a thorough overhaul. Port Ciialmees, Thursday. - A shocking accident happened at 10.30 am., yesterday, by which a man named George Smith, who was engaged removing the lace of an embankment, was crushed to death. His bowels are protrudinK, and his legs almost severed from his body. The deceased was married and leaves seven children. Dunedin, Friday. A private telegram received in town yesday irom Lawrence intimates that his Honor Judge Wilson Gray U so dangerously ill that ! faint hopes are entertained of his recover/.' He gave judgement in some'intricate cases on: Monday attended by two medical men, and ; was then carried back to his hotel. ■' _, . ■ Saturday: • The grain market is quiet. Fat sheep io excessive supply; The demand for young merinos continues. The following nre the quotations :- Cross-bred s, four tooth arid' upwards, 11s to- 12s 6d; two-tooth, 9s 6d to 10s; do. lambs, 8s ; merino ewes, two, four, and six-tooth, 8s to 9t; ditto, full-mouthed; 4s to ss; merino wethers, two, four, and sixtooth, 7s; full-mouthed, 4s 9d to 5s 6d. The insurance on the buildings destroyed by fire yesterday was £100, in the New Zealand Insurance Company.' , Christchuecii, Saturday. . The market quotations, f.0.b., at Lyttelton, are as follows:— Wheat, 3s 8d to 3s 9d; oatSj 2s lOdto Ss; barley, 5s 3d to 6s 6d; bran; £4 5s to £4 10s; sharps, £4 10s to i£4 15s; chee.-e, scarce, 3d; butter, la 6d; hams and bacon, none in market; new cure ready in a month. , • : ..