TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 932, 30 March 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, London, March 25. News has been received from Ireland that a strong ill-feeling, which has manifested itself of late between the men of the 84th and 88th Regiments stationed at Galway, culminated today in a serious disturbance in that town Two bodies of men belonging to the regiments named met in the street and a riot at once commenced. They fought desperately for some time, and several of the combatants received injuries of a more or less serious character. The disturbance was at length suppressed by the police, and several arrests were made, March 27A very severe gale has been experienced in the English Channel, and on the English and French coapts. It has proved disastrous at Havre. Several wrecks have resulted, and a lifeboat which was proceeding 1 to the assistance of a vessel was capsized, and the crew* numbering sixteen, we p e drowned. The house of Mr Mahon, Magistrate, near Roscommon, was destroyed by an explosion of dynamite last night; the tenants, however, escaped uninjured. The perpetrators of the outrage have not yet beeß arrested. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has advanced 6d, and is now quoted at 54s 6d j New Zealaad ditto remains at 51s. Adelaide flour, ex store, has advanced to 88s 6d,.

Australian tallow—best beef 39a 6d, best mutton 44s 6d.

Spotch pig iron has fallen Is per ton. No. 2, f.o.b, in the Clyde, 50s, Galvanised iron, 2P gauge, has declined 5s per ton to £lB, Best Sydney copra has fallen to £ls 12s 6d,

At the wool sales today 11,000 bales were catalogued. Prices were firmly maintained. The Australian liner Fammanoth. 1983 tons, has become a total wreck at Gravesend. Five of the crew are missing, and are believed to have been drowned.

—; « AUSTRALIAN, Mepboprhe, March 27, It is stated that Bryant, the informant of the Age regarding the alleged Russian designs upon the colonies, has suddenly disappeared from Melbourne. March 28. Rain is falling in most parts of the colony, and the long-continued drongbt is now believed to have broken up. A farewell banquet waß given tonight to Mr Murray Smith, who shortly proceeds to London as Agent-General. Sydney, March 27.

The Colonial Secretary, Sir John Roberton, while going on board a steamer on Saturday afternoon, slipped and fell into the water. He swam to the shore safely before assistance could be rendered him. March 28. Telegrams are to, hand announcing that the steamship Ilollander, 697 tons, bound for Sydney with a cargo of sugar for the Colonial Sugar Company, has been destroyed by fire at sea, The crew landed safely a,t Banjjoewangi, in Java. The captain committed 6uic}de. The vessel was only partially insured. The Australian Steam Navigation Co.'s steamship City of Adelaide ran ashore in the harbor today at Bradley's head during a heavy fog. She is expected to be got off safely at high water,

NEW ZEALAND. (Per Press Association ) AucKkANiv March 28. At the inquest on the body of Henry McQuoid, killed on the Onehunga road early on Sunday morning, the evidence ehowei that the lad, who was only 18, had been served at 11 o*clock on Saturday night at the Onehunga hotel with three glasses of gin, though the publican admitted McQuoid was " fresh " when he came m. The jury returned an open verdict. Tawhiao's wife came down by the Waikato train tonight, and interviewed the Native Minister. • The holding of a Native Land Court at Mokau is officially notified. Rewi applies for a, Land Court" at Kihikihi, intending to put a large tract of country about Kihikihi through the Court. Greymouth, March, 28. The quantity of gold to be shipped per.Albambra, toraoirow morning, is as follows :—Bank of New Zealand, 3622

Bank of New Zealand,:! 234; Bank ef'New South .Wales, 1100 ; Chinese. 283 ; J. Poynton, 88; total 7227 ounces. -'•" • Christohccrch, March 28. The agricultural statistics for the Counties ;of Ashley, Selwyn, Akaroa and Ashburton are made up. The estimated yield of wheat is respectively—--645,842 ; 1,535,375 ; 43,575, and 1,540,638 bushels. Of 0at5—369,176; 509,717; 13,961; and 414,111 bushels. Of barley—39,o37 ; 108,772 : 7255, and 112,849 bushels. Of potatoes, 9857 ; 15.643; 290 and 1072 tons respectively. Oamaru, March 28. A fire occurred on Monday night at Otepopo, by which a threshing mill and two stacks of oats were deetroyed. The mill was insured for £4OO ; the oats were also insured. The Oamaru breakwater is expected to bo completed in a month's time. Dr Moran, Roman Catholic Bishop, is expected to arrive nexf Tuesday by the Hero, from Melbourne. The agricultural statistics for the Taieri district show an increase of 60,000 bushels of wheat this year, and a decrease of 44,000 bushels in oats. Wheat shows an average of 40 bushels to the acre ; oats 38f bushels.