LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 241, 18 August 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(PER PRESS AGENCY.

WELLINGTON. Sunday. The London wool sales opened on the 12th. They comprise 311,000 bales, of which 32,000 dales were sent to the manufacturing districts. The market is unchanged for superior washed and combing, but coarse crossbred has declined |d to Id. Lambs' wool is easier. Trade in the manufacturing districts is unchanged. The wheat market is quiet. Adelaide, 495; New Zealand, 48a per quarter. Tallow firm. Best mutton, 33s 6d; beef, 31s 6d. The Wellington-Foxton Railway is to be commenced immediately, Reinforcements of Constabulary, with a large supply of stores and war material, will be sent to the front in a. few days.

Fox's supporters held an -enthusiastic meeting at Wanganui. An influential committee was appointed, Bryce has issued his adiressi. He runs with Ballance.

A railway accident-occur) :A at Balcluthabjr which the engine and two cars were thrown off the l.'ne. The engineer got jammed between the eng.ineand car, and died the next morning.

Montagu Brown, pressman, theatrical agent, was much shaken ai id broke his leg to-day through a trap ac cident. The Eon. Mr Thomson h is gone South. Sir {korgo Grey aodresse d the Liberal Association last night; 150 C) were present. He was received enthusiastically. Ksher announced himself disqualified.

. OATERRTON, [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] Saturday, The electioneering struggle has already commenced here, a committee having been formed with a view to securing the return of Mr George Beetham, and another to strive to secure the return of Mr Bunny. I suppose next week we shall have two others, in fact nearly everyone in the placa will be on one .Committee or ether, and |during the next six weeks all the country will pretty well have its fill of the views of all sorts of peoples, classes, sects, and associations, as to the best method of raising New Zealand to the very acme of political purity and success.