WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3346, 12 September 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day. The stabbing case at Kaiwarra election was adjourned.

The Premier arrived ibis morning.

The Volunteers turned but to receive Colonel Pearce on his return from England.

The Jane Douglas has returned from her search after the schooner Laurel. She could see uo sign of her.

The New Zealand Loan Mercantile Agency Company report, under date London, September 9, as follows:—Wool market unchanged. Up te date one hundred and eighty thousand bales hare been sold. In wheat, the foreign arrivals have been heavy, although the French crop is deficient. Adelaide is worth 69s per quarter, and New Zealand 48s. Tallow is in good demand, and stocks of all sorts are eleven thousand casks. Mutton is 3os and beef 32s per cwt. The leather market is firm, and best hides are worth 9Jd.

On Wednesday evening a vessel was seen north of Jackson's head, apparently drifting; she had part of her sails set, and the little steamer Torea has gone to look for her.

The steamer Australia, with the inward London- mails of August 14th, left San Francisco on the Ist September, contract date, and the City of New York with the outward New Zealand mails of August 19, arrived at San Francisco on the 9th of September, two days in advance of contract time. ;