LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 148, 25 June 1877, Page 2

LA TEST TELEGRAMS.

INTBRP 11 OV I N C I A L . Auckland, Saturday. The Mount Eden Brewery Company have received a telegram from Wellington stating, in reply to the Licensed Victuallers' petition, that the Government is favorable to the equalising of .Auckland licenses to other partsof the colony. Sunday. The Hawea is bar bound at the Manukau Heads. The repairs to the steamer Wellington will be completed iv time for her to leave for the South on Monday. Wellington, Saturday. lhe following ships have arrived at London :—Hampshire and Sobraon, from Melbourne; Cicero and Damascus, from Sydney. Mouday. Ihe Loan and Mercantile Agency report under date London, June 22:—W00l competition increasing, quotations average a penny to a penny half-penny better than at the opening. The principal adrances have been in superior greasy, superior combing, and washed crossbred combing. In washed the market is firmer. Jn scoured the market is unchanged. The sales close ou the 26th inst. The competition by home and foreign buyers is active. The tallow market is quiet; mutton, 425; beef, 41 s; wheat market flat! The weather is favorable for crops here, I Adelaide wheat sells at 635, and New Zealand' at 565. .The leather market is flat, best j hides, 10£ d. I

Cheistchurch, Monday. . A draper in town has heen selling vest buttons which are a good imitation of sovereigns. A young lad named Catchon got some. and carefully, filed off the shanks, and passed one of the buttons, as a sovereign, hut was caught in making a second attempt. Another boy has since beea arrested for a similar offence. The Bench censured the draper for offering such a temptation to commit fraud. Grahamstown, Saturday.. The gold eturns for the week were 2708 ounces, of which the Moanatairi contributes 1092 ounces. The latter is from a fortnight's crushing.