LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 230, 23 June 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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NEW PLYMOUTH. June 22,

Mr Courtney reports selling G3 head cattle. Small yearlings, £2 19s to £3 15s; eighteen months’ old steers and heifers, £3 15s to £4 10s ; store cows, £5 to £6; cow's in calf £G to £9; good heifers, £8 2s6d ; fat cows, £7 5s to £7 12sGd.

The cutter Dawn, which was run ashore off the Waitara last week, has quite broken up and the beach is strewn with wreckage. WELLINGTON. June 20. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held this afternoon the proposal of the Government, recommended by a Committee of the Chamber, to reclaim land and bring the railway into connection with the present wharf, instead or

building a distinct railway wharf, was unanimously adopted,’ on the motion of Mr W. Johnston, M.H.R. An amendment, to the effect that the motion was inadvisable, had been previously rejected by y majority of ton to one. The question oi k-gislali-m in reference to bills of sale, so as to prevent defrauding of creditors, was considered. It was agreed to leave the matter in the hands ol Mr Johnston, M.H.R, to bring before the House, and to communicate with other Chambers of Commerce throughout the Colony on the subject. At an adjourned meeting of the local Licensing Dench held yesterday it was decided, on a cpicstiou asked by Mr Ollivior, acting for the local Licensed Victuallers Association, that no extra fee was required where an hotel had more than one bar. Juno 22. Last night the Mayor moved in Council that steps be taken for the reclamation of To Aro foreshore, and that a special loan of £ 100,000 be raised for that -purpose. The motion was carried but the amount of the loan was left for future consideration. A. report by Charles O’Niell was read. It recommends the enclosing of an area of 38£ acres, between Taranaki and Harbour Streets, which will give a wharf frontage of Vila feet and a building frontage of 12,000 feet. The depth of -water along the outer portion will be 20 feet. The work is estimated to cost £98,500. The scheme is intended as a continuation of the Chamber of Commerce scheme for extending the existing reclamation to the outer T of Queen’s Wharf. Mr George Thomas reports produce pi-ices as follows : Flour—colonial, £2O; Adelaide, £25 ; oats, 3s(id to Is ; bran, ls2d ; wheat—lords 4s3d to IsT.l, milling 7sGd ; hams, 10V ; bacon,9J 7 d; cheese, 7<l to 8d ; maize, ss; pollard, 7s(kl; potatoes, £3 10s to £l. DUNEDIN. Juno 20. The ratepayers roll for Dunedin will be reduced by one half this year through the stringency of the Rating Act. Negotiations for exchanging the site on the Town licit for the present General Hospital have fallen through. The attention of the City Council has been called to the dilapidated, unsightly, ami uncomfortable condition of some of the city cubs, and authority has been given for theneccssay inspection. The City Council have resolved to improve the cricket reserve by erecting a picket fence, at a cost of £l5O. Juno 22. At a meeting of shareholders of the “ Gtago Daily dimes and Witness Company,” held, yesterday, it was resolved to accept offer made to purchase the property of the Company. The purchaser is said to be the Hon William Henry Reynolds, am! the , price about £22,000, being nearly one hundred percent. premium on paid-up capital. s GREY MOUTH. Juno 22. Wreckage found at the Seventeen Mile Dench is supposed to be from the Elizabeth Conway. A quantity of oats lias been washed ashore. There aro no signs of any of the crew. It is supposed all are lost. The weather is again threatening and all steamers in port are detained. CHRISTCHURCH. Juno 22. The Times this morning says arrangements for the . prosecution of the work of recovering gold from the General Grant have been completed and Captain Giles goes to the Dluff by the next steamer, having secured the sendees of an cxpeiicnccd diver and other hands for the Gazelle. The Board of Governors of the College have d ■•■cidod to purchase 320 acres of land for a model farm to be connected with the School oi Agriculture. Also to select several blocks of land as an endowment for the Girls’ High School. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt at the new goods tariff on railways. The Chamber of Commerce intend protesting. Wheat, Gs Cd to 7s, stocks getting low, owing to excessive shipments to London; good milling scarce. Flour in demand at £l7 ; oats, 3s 6d for feed, but milling should command a shade more. Oatmeal, £lB to £22 ; potatoes, £3; cheese, 7d; hams and bacon, Bd. Trade is brisk. OAMARU. June 22. Yesterday a widow named Quarrie, residing at Oamaru, died suddenly. After her death, the eldest son (Daniel) disappeared, and was not heard of till this morning, when he gave himself up to the police at Waimate, ns being the cause of his mother’s death. The doctor who made the post mortem examination, said deceased had died from a fractured skull. She had been drinking.