LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 117, 19 May 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

INTERPRO VINCIAL Wellington, Friday. Humors have beentin circulation that the Government was going to despatch a vessel specially to bring up pasKsengers and wool by Ocean Mail from Chatham Island, but it is understood that this will not be the case, as' Ritchie and Co., who purchased the wreck, have two vessels there at present, and there is every probability these will start as soon as the/ are loaded, Saturday. Mr O'Shea has ofEejed his creditors at the adjourned meeting to-day 7s 6d in the pound, ihe representative of the Australian creditors, aud probably the majority will accept. Auckland, Friday. A telegram from Uussell states that the Ocean Mail struck on a rock at the Chatham islands called French Sock on the N.W. side of the island. The passengers aud crew numbered 60 all told. They were all savd and are still at the Chathams. Four days after the wreck one ba'e of wool was washed ashore. • At the Bay of Islands very little hope is entertained of getting the barque Feronia, wrecked at Kaipara Heads, off. She is a barque of 315 tons, belonging to a foreign firm in Melbourne, and was under the command of Captain J. M. White. The captain reports: " We made the Heads on the 9th, and in beating up through the channel tha ship was driven ashore stern first by being taken aback. The boats were got oat at once,;as the vessel was found to be filling, and the tide is now ebbing and flowing out of her." The Corporation have accepted a tender of £1400 for city siaighter houses. Mrßinney reports:— Flour, £22; Southern, £18; sharps, £8 10s; bran, £5 ss; oats, 3s3dbacon, 6d lo 7d; cheese, 7d. Mr Buckland reports:— Fat cattle, 25sto 27s per 1001 b; loag-woolled wethers, 10s 6d to 16s; merinos, 6s 6d to 11s: half-bred wethers 12s to 14s. Moanatiria,£lo 10s to £11, closing, sellers, £1Q 12s 6d; Caledonians, £5; Cure, 10s 6d; Waftekura, I6s; Queen of Beauty, 265; Kurunui, 30s ; Piako, 10s 6d; Thames, 555 ; buyers Bank N.Z., £20 10s; Sotith British, £4; N.Z. Insurance, £5 ss ; sellers Colonial Bank, £2 2s. , Saturday. The City of New York has arrived. News of the war by her only dates to the crossing of the Pruth, Austria will occupy Bosnia if Servia is disturbed. Ninety thousand Austrians are prepared for mobilisation. One hundred thousand Russians have advanced on Galatz. Ten thousand Turks have proceeded from Widdin to defend the Danube between Silistria and Ishmail. The Grand Hotel, St. Louis, has been destroyed by fire, and 120 inmates were burned. Martok, Friday. At a meeting of discontented immigrants at Halco ibe Town, at which the Corporation's agent was present by invitation, it was stated as the grounds of complaint that they were induced to come to New Zealand by false representations being made to them in England. They had been promised a cottage with an acre of laud for £40, or a rental of 7s 6d per week for three years, witen it would become freehold. Now they were charged £78 or 7s 6d per week for four years. They had been promised constant work at 7s per day, but can only obtain four day3 per week at ss. Mr HaJcombe explained that the agreement referred to applied to the Fieldi ing settlement. At Halcombe Town more substantial houses had been built, therefore they were charged more. Good men could earn from 7s to 10s per day at tenpence per yard, the price they were getting. He would see that they were provided with necessary tools, and ultimately a resolution wus passed to resist paying more than 7s rental per week and a subscription list was opened to pay for legal assistance to compel the Corporation to fulfil the pioniises uuder which they had come out. Dunedin, Friday. i Wheat has been in good request during | the past week, quotations range between 4s , 6d to 6s; ordinary quality barley, 4s to I ss ; oats meet with ready sale at 2s 4d to 2s I Bd. Mr Bradshaw reports:— Colonial Bank, 40s to 41s 6d; National Bank, 675; National Insurance, 31s; South British, 80s; New Zealand Insurance, 955; Standard, 15s; New Zealand Shipping, 70s. The University Council to-day sold their present buildings to the Colonial Bank for £27,000. Ah inquest commenced this afternoon re the death of Margaret M'lntyre, aged 17, who had been employed as servant in the family of Mrs M. F. lleid. The evidence of the girl's parents showed that the girl was in good health when she entered Reid's service, and that when they visited her a few hours before death, they found her lying on a mattrass in a very neglected condition. They state that Mrs Eeid offered them first £500 and afterwards £2000 to say nothing about the matter. Messrs Stout and Gillies are watching the investigation on behalf of Mrs Reid, and wili seek tojestablish that the girl died from diarrhoea. Saturday. The inquest on the girl M'lntyre bas been adjourned till Tuesday. Dr Batchelor swears that the immediate cause of death was congestion of the luugs, caused by exposure in a cold room while suffering from iuflammation of the bowels and in a state of starvation. Christchurch, Friday. The following are the export quotations, f.0.b., at Lyttelton: — First quality milling wheat, 6s to 6s 3d; second, 4s 9d to 5s 6d, market firm ; oats have advanced, and are firmly held for 3s. The stocks are not heavy, the yield being considerably under expectations; barley, 4s to 4s 6d, dull; flour, £16 to £17; bran, £4 10s; sharps, £5 10s; cheese, 7d; potatoes, £2. Shipments of wheat to England and Australia are very heavy. At a meeting of the Jockey Club this afternoon it was decided to increase the stakes for the Canterbury Cup and C.J.C. Handicap at tho Spring Meeting from £250 each to £500 each. The question of getting a siding constructed from the railway to the racecourse, aud telegraph carried on to the course also, was discussed, members beiug strongly in favor of it, [but no definite decision was arrived at.