SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1000, 19 November 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[press agency. I AUCKLAND, last night. At the Auckland "Waste Lands Sale to-day ten allotments, sold at prices varying 1 from. £4s to .£2 46. Nine Lots at Waimaiia Parish were all sold. Two lots at Makarau soln for £61 and £17. The lots at Otawn Creek averaged from £30 to £50. 183 acres at Kawakawa brought j£366. Tbe remaining lots m various districts realised upset prizes. The principal buyers were Messrs W. Aitken, Jones, Heard, .Dufaur, Gilbert, Moipeth, Graham, White, and Garland. Mr Buckland held his first wool sale: of the season; at the Haymarket, to-day, consisting of 250 bales. Wool m grease averaged 6 d to 9|d ; mixed, m grease, "from 7|d to 3 Jd ; washed, from 9|d to Is according to condition. The principal buyers were, Sutherland, Warnock, Laybourn; Cruichshank, Osborne, Ireland, and Nathan. Several lots, on which were reserved figures, were passed. A strong committee is formed to give the Australian Cricketers a suitable welcome, A steames will bo chartered to go down and meet them whenever the signal for the Mail steamer is hoisted. An ad i dress will be pressuted, ■■ = Father Henneberry is erecting a marquee to hold four thousand people. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The ship Alexander McNeil arrived from New York yesterday, with a cargo of reapers aud binders. The JNew Zealand agents of the Wood reaper and binder received a cablegram from London yesterday, informing them that at the trial under the auspices of the Highland and Agricultural Society, hold at Liberton, Lower Main, the Wood Machine received the first prize gold medal, the other machines-com-peting being the Osborne and McCormick. A most important sale of marino rams and ewes was held at the Wool Store, Hereford-street, to-day, comprising animals from the flocks of Messrs. James Gibson, David Taylor, William Henry Gibson J. Toosey, and Robert Jones : of Tasmania, and Sir Samuel Wilson, of Brcildown, and John Wilson, of Gala, Victoria. The sale was the most important ever held m Canterbury, and very high prices were realised. The following ai'e some of the principal :— 65, 50, 55, 70, 571, 40, 30, 60, 32£, 30, 60, 70, 47-1, 20, 221 290, 290. 205, 100,120,^120, 130, 59, 271, 20, B?-h 40, 30, 40, 27h 52, 65,30, 85, 22|, 20, 121 , 35, 30, 32£, 40, 42|, 75, 52-1, 574, 23-i, 60, and 60 guineas. A large number of others were disposed of, at from 5 to 20 guineas. TIMARU, Saturday. GALE AT TIMARU. Yesterday a fiightfiil and fatal accident occurred, when the roof blew off a house near Ormsby's flour mill, taking a chimney with it. Through the fall of the lattor, it caused the instantaneous denth of an infant seven, months old ; aud Mrs Drew, the mother, died about ten minutes after the child. TIMARU, last night. The Waimate fire has been most calamitous. It is still raging,. though it is hoped" that an abatement m the severity of the wind, and a change from the quarter m which it is blowing, will produce a favorable result. Already, about £70,000 worth of property is damaged. According to one statement, the conflagration was caused by tho spread of a fire lighted on Studholme's property, and proceeding's will Vjo taken against jpirj, Tlje Ki-o i.y still burning, but no Airl.her damage h; upprenouded. AJI tho valuable portion of tl.o timber i.s • , burned, together with the mill ' < machinery, ' ]

Studholm's loss is .£40,000 ; Prioo'H, £1000; Barrett's, £ 8000 j Ricknian's, £4000. It is oatiinatod that £80,g|Q ; will. not. cover all tho d|raa^e." :-^esi|les i-tha bush aud mills, [tbirty-fivo! igimUies aro burnt out: of' house and h'SmS..,' Over £500 is : W ready/ subscribed "at Wainmte, for the Reliof'ofi the sufferers. Tho Mayors of; Cliiistchurch, Tiniavo, Oamaru, aad Dunedin, havo been requested? to assist m obtaining relief. The women and children are provided with accommodation m the Public Hall and Hospital. LYTTLETON, last night. Arrived, Rangitike, from London with 59 passengers and a large cargo, 105 days from docks. She picked up two Portag-ue sailds, part of the crew of a Portague ship, who had been m the water m a swamped boat for 50 hours. Two others of the boat's crew had been seized by sharks, two more died from exhaustion. OAMARU, Saturday. THE GRAIN MARKET. Wheat is without change. Buyers are not inclined to operate. Oats, stock is m demand outside, buyers being pretty well stocked. Wheat, 3s Gd to 3s lOd ■ oats, 8s 8d to 4s. There ib no barley m the market., Flour, <£9 10s to £9 17s 6d. f.o.b. '■■ DUNEDIN, Saturday. ; ! THE GRAIN MARKET. Wheat, 4s to 4s 2d ; oata, 4s Id > barley, ss, to .5s 6d ; bran, .£5 10s > pollard, £5 to £'5 10s • oatmeal £20 > potatoes, £4 10s, INVERCARGILL, Saturday. PRODUCE MARKET. Business improved a little during" the week, but much the adme as m last report, Oats have advanced slightly, and, are now m excess of wheat. Good milling 1 commands 4s 6d ; feed, 4s 9d ; chaff, scarce, 7s to 8s ; oatmeal, £19 ; wheat, fullsupply; a small and very superior parcel realised 4s Bd, but general quotations are 4s 4d for prime milling, and 3s 6d lor fowl feed. Flour, £10. 10s j pollard, Gs ; brau, £5 lOcl; potatoes,' £7 to £7 10s. ; TAUPO, Saturday. Rewite Te Kerne, a notable chief of this district, died last night. He was a Good' Templar and a very loyal man.