TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2534, 15 June 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

—♦ (Per Grecille't Telegram Company, Reuters Agents.) Melboc-rne, June 8. Breadstuffs are firmer since the arrival of the Californian mail. Flonr for trade demand, £16 10s to £16 15s. For New Zealand wheat, medium sample, 6s 2d has been accepted; Port Macdonald, 6s lid to 7s. New ■ j Zealand oats are improving, and quoted at 3s 7d ; sugars, greyish crystals, £37 10s'; yeli low counters, £34 10s to £35. Hennessey's I case brandy, 295. TAUBA2JGA, June 14. The Tanranga, schooner, brings the following news from Auckland :—Harley, charged under the Arms Act, has been found guilty. Sentence has been deferred. Chief Justice Amey has raised a point of law which "will materially affect the present and-other cases under the Anns Act, viz., whether the prisoner could be convicted under the indictment, as the Act of 1866 had been repealed, and no revival of the section of the Act of 1860, as it originally stood has been made. The points reserved for the decision of the next Appeal Court. The Caledonian Gold-mining Company held a meeting on Saturday last, and declared a dividend for the last fortnight of £12 a share. The total amount paid in dividends since February is £343,200. The Thames Investment Company paid a dividend of £2 per share. The Thames news was satisfactory up to Saturday. From the Caledonian loewt. specimens were taken out, and the returns will be higher than expected. 14,0000zs of good stone has been taken out of the Alburnia and the North Devon claims. Very rich specimens have also been taken from the Una mine. Alburnia lodged in the Bank 5510z5. The Queen of Beauty retorted lOGozs. of gold. Caledonian shares are enquired for at £175 to £177 10s ; Tookey's, £25 to £27 ; Thames, £57 ; Golden Calf, 45s ; Central Italy, 35s ; Una, 20s to 225. The native, lost in the bush, has been found after fourteen days' absence. Whilst aiming a blow at a pig he cut his own leg. and disabled himself. He crept to an old plantation where he subsisted on raw potatoes. The Wellington arrived at 7 this morning, and left at 9 for Auckland. Bluff, June 14. The Gothenburg arrived at the wharf at daylight, and sails for Dunedin to-night. Passengers—For Dunedin : Mrs Berston, Mr and Mrs Clapperton and two children, Messrs McMaster, Young, and Bashford, Key. P. Roseby, Mr and Miss Mackay. For Lyttelton : Messrs 'Coombes and Whitley. Cargo for Dunedin : IS7 tons ; for Lyfctelton, 58 tons ; for Wellington, 54 tons ; and for Nelson, 18 tons.