LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 320, 11 May 1878, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRESS -AGEXCiT.] o ALEXANDRA. May 10.. At IToknrangi on Friday, at noon, Tawhiao demanded that the Waikato should be placed under his control from Mimigatuitari to Taupo. lie says this must be settled to-day. Grey offered him lands belonging to Government on rigid bank of the river, live hundred acres at Ngaruawaiha, and £SOO a-year, to build a bouse for him at Kawhia, ami give him some allotments in the township for his children. The meeting is going on. AUCKLAND. May 10. I Mr Lackland reports : —Eat cattle, 2Gs to 30s per hundred ; sheep, full mouthed, medium, dull of sale ; well fatted maiden wethers, good enquiry, 2d to 3d per lb. Mr Bimioy reports : Christchurch flour, .213 11s; Uamaru, Aid; bran, ,25 10s; pollard, 26; oats, 4s 3d ; maize, Gs ; wheat, mi 11 ill"-, no sale; fowl wheat, 4a ; potatoes, 23 10s; butter, 9d to 10d. The i’ev ohailon, who arrived by the Zealandia, is delegated by the Irish Wesleyan Conference to collect subscriptions to liquidate balance of cost of Dublin Wesleyan College. WELLINGTON. May 10. Win. O’Connor, charged with attempt to poison William Light, landlord of Barrett’s Hotel, was brought up to-day, and, after some further evidence had been taken, was committed for trial. He reserved his de fence. A long and warm altercation took place in the Supreme Court this morning, between the Chief Justice and Mr Barton. The Evening Post has issued a writ for £I,OOO damages against the EveningChronicle for slanderous libel in regard to certain allegations about the Post’s Special Cable News.. WELLINGTON. May 10. George Thomas reports produce prices as follows : Flour, Adelaide, £18; colonial, £l3 to £l3 10s; oats, 4s 3d ; bran, Is ; wheat, 3s lOd ; hams, 9d ; bacon, 8d ; cheese, 7MI; maize, Gs 6d; potatoes, £3 15s; pollard, 7s ; butter, Is to Is 3d.