LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 210, 14 April 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

(Tivii Pumss Ahunov.] WELLINGTON. April ID. i’nonjca Mau::::t—-'l'Shou report-; produce. prices as follows :—Flour. S'-arco ; o (l, £!G ‘J.U to .Cl 7 ; now, Clo 10s to CIO ; Adelaide, All). Oats, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; bran, Is In Is ‘id. Hams, 9£l. Bacon, 8d to 9d. Cheese, overstocked, 7d to 8,1. Potatoes, 80s to 90s. Maize, 5s to 5s 3d. Pollard, £7 10s to AS. Christchurch. April 13. Buyers produce quotations at Christchurch—Milling wheat, 4s Gd to os. Oats, ‘is in is 3.1. Barley, 4s Gd. Flour, £l4 10s to £ls 10s. Bran, 4s. Sharps, ss. 01icc.se, Gd. Butter, lOd to Is. NEW PLYMOUTH. April 13. At Mr Courtney’s Cattle Sale, the following were the prices realised :—Yearlings, £i 10s to £3 12s Gd. Calves, 30s. Thrce-ycar-uld steers, £G. Dry cows, £4 10s to £5 10s. Milch cows, £9 12s Gd Rams, £2 10s each. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Wellington, April 11. Wakatipu arrived late last night, from Sydney, and brings Ceylon telegrams which did not appear in the Australian papers till the 5 th : CONSTANTINOPLE. Fch 2G. The Shah of Persia has assured the Sublime Porto that the massing of his troops on the frontier is simply to punish the Turkomans. Midhat Pasha is staying at Naples. Gathorno Hardy’s army estimate is due to the nominal credit being taken for the whole payment by the Indian Government for British, troops serving in India. Among notices of motion in the House of Ominous, is one by Alderman McArthur, proposing to call attention to the state of affairs in Ceylon, in relation to Ecclesiastical endowments. March 3. Lord Hamilton, in replying to a scries of questions from Sir G. Campbell, said the title of Kaiser as applied to Her Majesty in India, was Arabic and not German. Gerald Fitzgerald, he also said, had simply chosen to spend a year’s leave in the Khedive’s service, for the purpose of carrying out Goschen’s scheme for reorganization of finances of Egypt. The reason assigned for the British fleet quitting the Piiaeus is that the state- of European politics does not require its presence in the East. March 5. The Checfoo convention remains ratifiedLord Derby requested Sir Thomas "Wade 1o prepare a memorandum giving the reason for every concession made. In the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote, replying to a question by Sir

IL AVolil, said the first reduction in the Suez Canal dues has been postponed till the 15th April. The Cana! Company, he said, objects to England voting because the shares held by the English Government do not boar coupons. The Government protested against this ohji'dion, and declares its right to vote as shareholders. Hardy, in presenting his army estimates, said that the condition of the army was exccllem. He would shortly present a. plan for the promoting and retirement of officers.