LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 132, 15 July 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

. [Per Press Agency.] AUCKLAND. July 13. A schooner has arrived at the Bay of Islands from New Caledonia - f she reports that a large French frigate had arrived there with 900 convicts. Mr Farnall is announced as a candidate for City West. Messrs Goldie, J. M. Clark and Hurst are spoken of. The Auckland cricketers'have telegraphed agreeing' to the new terms for the visit of the English eleven. The barque Lady Franktyn! wag floated off the hank in Kaipara,-butsbe sot aground again. If is expected that she will be successfully floated. DUNEDIN. July 13. A railway hand at Stirling, name'd John Young, was killed to-day by a truck passing over him. The railway earnings for last month amounted to £9,886. _ The Post Office Savings Bank returns' for the quarter ending 30tb fltfne show that £43,466 had been deposited, while£4Bjßsl had been Withdrawn. CHRISTCHURCH. July 14. Wheat market is firm',- sales being madeat up to 4s 9d for best milling ; oats, 2s to 2s 2d } barley, 4s 6kl for prime malting ; butter. Is 2d ; cheese, 9£d ; flour, £lO 10s to £ll 10s ;• bran and sharps scarce at 5s 10d and, 6s lOd respectively ; potatoes, 3s. John Beamish committed suicide owing to heavy losses by the Oxford bush fire some weeks ago. The Canterbury cricketers meet to-night to consider visit of English cricketers. At a meeting if was resolved to suggest to the General Government the advisability of asking the Imperial Government to make arrangements for occasional visits being made to, and provisions left at Crozet Island, where the Strathmore wag wrecked, :