LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1880, 14 August 1874, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

« i.;'-/ :■■-. : ; (ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PKBSS. TBLEGUAPH . AGEKOY.]-/'! :'.: -.-.. i Christchurch, Aug. 13. Export quotations : Wheat, 5s to 5s 3d !; barley, 5s 6d to 5s 7d ; oats, 4s 9d ; flour, Ll2 to Ll3 ; bran, L 6 ; pollard, L 6; sharps, L 7 ; cheese, 7d to 7£d ; potatoes; L 6 5s •; hams, uncovered, lO^d ; bacon, uncovered, 8d ; potatoes and oats scarce ; millers' stocks of wheat low. Wellington, Aug. ; 13. The following telegram is sent by Von der Hyde in reference to the movements of the San Francisco steamers : — The Tartar left San Francisco on 28th July for Auckland direct, and will leave the latter port for Sydney on the. 21st by the Cyphrenes, returning from Kandavauj and awaits the arrival of the Tartar, to proceed south, and returns again to Auckland to meet the City of Melbourne, which arrives from Sydney, and then goes on to San Francisco, calling at Honolulu.' The Macgregor arrives at^Auckland from; San Francisco via Honolulu, .about.lst of. September ; transfers mails to City of; Adelaide, which will be waiting, arid "pro-; ceeds south ; returns; .again to Auckland; and takes up the through service; The ; City of Melbourne proceeds direct to f Sydney, and thence to Kandavau to conj .nect with the Macgregor. . . ' The following are the tenders received! for the Westport contract for the [Mount! Rochefort railway formation and perma-! nent way : —Accepted : John M'Lean,? Greymouth, L 16 ,795. Declined : Stephen! Lowin, Westport, informal ; E.J3; Gar-j yen, Greymouth, L 16,81 8; Win. Smith,! Hokitika, L 17,373; Walton, and, Pell,: Westporfc, ;L17,697; J- 8., Etevenaux,? Westport, L 19,182; Keith /Bros, Grey-' mouth, : - L25,526 i| Alex. Stitt, Westport, ' L 28,741. . • Westport, Aug. 13. j Work on the railway commenced this l morning ; sixty ' bush men are clearing ) timber. The Mayor, F. W. Humphrey; Esq., performed the ceremony of felling the first tree, and made a congratulatory speech. ■'•: •;'•■:•. , Auckland, Aug. 13. .. ! A strong fading exists re Vogel's North Island Provinces resolutions. The "Cross" condemns the action of the Government, and says that in the event of defeat and dissolution 1 "unless Mr Vogel's arguments are very convincing indeed, we do not believe the. result of the . election would, so far as Auckland is concerned, strengthen hishands pn this question." The " Herald " denies that the arrangement of 1856, wa^s jiny thing but tb rein'bve then existing meq ualities, and was never known as a binding compact* fqr { years after 1856. : : - . iThp "Star" denounces the scheme as so palpably unfair and so grossly insulting, that it will^aroUse the; dormant feeling in the.Nprth.sp that.it ;WHl be difficult to allay. No man dare appear on Auckland hustings and announce himself a supporter of such a policy. . " ".'.'.,

A prisoner- : lia's been killed in Manchester Gaol by falling through the wheel of' a treadmill on which he was at work, ; Mr ; . Lionel Levy, proprietor of the Globe Theatre, in London, has presented the Duke of Edinburgh, as a wedding gift, a dessert service of solid gold. Its value is between 3000 and 4000 guineas. Councillor Hamilton, Port Glasgow, lately wrote to paidy ': Burdett ' Coutts, directing her attention to a newspaper paragraph stating |hatM. Moody,, the American Evangelist, had ' received a cheque for. LippO from her ladyship, but had declined to accept it.: In reply to Councillor Hamilton, who asked if /the statement .was . true, : the Baroness wrote that it is entirely without foundation. oj