TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 578, 9 March 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

fl'KJl FiJKSS ACiEXCY. J CHIUSTCIiUECH. March 8. The wheat market is unsettled. Quotations range from 4s. 3d. to 4s. Sd., but there is little selling, growers being of opinion that rates must further advance. I Oats are held for higher rates than those current. Quotations are :3s. 3d. to 3s. 4d. Barley commands 4s. to 4s. Od., accord • ing to quality ; the demand is brisk. Millers have "advanced Hour to Ll3 in sacks. Eye-grass is 7s. Gd. Hams and bacon scarce at Bd. in cloth. «. AUCKLAND. March 8. Mr. Binnev quotes flour at Ll3 ; oats, 4s. : oatmeal," L2O ; bran, L 6 ; pollard, L 5 10s. : potatoes, L 3 10s. : butter, lOd.; cheese, Gd. ; maize, os. ; bacon and hams, Sd. Mr. Buck-land quotes beef, 265. to 2bs. a hundred ; mutton, 2|-d. to 2kl. Share Market.—Bank of New Zealand, L 23 15s. ; National Bank, 735. Gd. ; South British, 70s. ; Union, 15s. 3d. ; New Zealand. 955. ; Guthrie and Larnach, L 4 7s. Od., buyers Li ss. ; Moanatain

I 00s., sellers G4s. ; iilburnia, buyers, 555.; Kuranui Hill, sellers, L 8 Gs. In reply to a deputation of licensed victuallers, the Hon. Mr. Sheehan said the Government intended to introduce a new licensing law next session. The fees would probably bo reduced to a uniform rate on the basis of the lowest fees now ruling. The Governor and suite to-day visited the Italian war ship Cristofero Colombo. The ship will be open to the public tomorrow,, and in the evening she will illuminate Auckland with electric lights. Colonel- Whifmoru is inspecting the East Coast stations, and will afterwards inspect the posts in the YVaikato. The Marchioness of Isormanby will visit the Waiwera sanatorium.

At the University Senate to-day, a motion by Mr. Bruce to increase the value of tiie scholarship was lost.

TIMAIIU. March 9. About S o'clock this morning David M'Cracken. a prisoner who has just been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the Criminal Sessions of the District Court for the larceny of a saddle, whilst at work iu the hard labour gang at the west of the Town Belt, bolted during the temporary absence of one of the warders. The police scoured about the town and outskirts for him, and he has just now been captured, hiding in a haystack at Wilson's farm, behind the Timaru Public School. WANGANUI. March 4. The weather was beautifully line for the second day's racing. The Handicap Hurdle Eace was won by Brewer's Gazelle, with Bully for You second.

Eight started for the W.J.C. Handicap, and a splendid race ensued between lie-so-lution and Foam, the former winning by half a length. The Day Dawn Cup wis carried oil' W Luna, Loch Lomond second. .Howe's Sky "Bine was first in the Maiden Plate, and*the Consolation was pulled oil' by Ouida, IVep-o'-Day Boy second. NELSON. March S. Florence IJ. Joseph, hairdresser, was yesterday charged with indecently assaulting a girl twelve years and six months old. The evidence occupied till 8 p.m., and the Bench reserved their decision till this afternoon, when they committed the prisoner for trial, allowing bail. On being released, he was chased and seized by several men, who were present. A rope was tied round his neck, and he was dragged, half throttled, through the streets to his shop in Trafalgar-street, when Morris Levy, the father of one of his victims (there are more than one) attacked him'with a loaded limiting crop, and administered _ a most unmerciful 1 hammering. The Bishop of Nelson and one or two others interfered, and the : wretched man, bruised and bleeding, with his clothes torn to rags, and several teeth knocked our, escaped into his shop.