LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 281, 22 December 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per press agency.] NELSON. December 21. Mr Curtis in addressing - the electors said that Sir George Grey’s friends had deceived him, by saying that Grey would support the new Government, without being a member of it, but as soon as Major Atkinson was turned out, they insisted that Grey should form a Ministry. Grey being an avowed Senarationist, ought not to be trusted with the Government of the country. One who could be guilty of such extravagance as shown in bombarding and Superintendent poisoning correspondence, was not fit to be Premier. Referring to Grey’s action re Land Bill, he said it was trying to make an instrument of the Governor, and was a piece of despotic tyranny. The proposal to reduce Ministers salaries was insincere. lie defended Atkinson against the charge indecent haste to return to office. If he was to be blamed so were all his party. WELLINGTON. December 21. A cable message to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company dated London, lath December, states that the wool sales closed at the level of last sales, on the 14th instant. Fifty thousand bales held over for future disposal. Sixty thousand taken for export. Good many second-hand parcels have been offered during last sales. Cross breds firm. Superior greasy-market easy. Scoured and superior combing washed-market unchanged. Tallow market quiet. Mutton 40s, beef 38s Gd. Wheat market; quiet. Foreign arrivals heavy. Adelaide GGs ; New Zealand 50s. Leather market flat. Best sides lOjd.