CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3904, 12 May 1877, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, Mayß. The wool sales opened to-day. About 7000 bales were offered, Port Phillip preponderating. The attendance was large, and the biddings commenced with great spirit, but the prices, compared with the last sales, show a decline of 10 per cent. May 9. The Turks have commenced bombarding Ivalafat. The Roumanian batteries are replying. It is reported that Germany has increased the number of her troops in Alsace and Lorraine. SYDNEY, May 11. The tide fell suddenly over two feet, and then returned to its original level. It also fell twenty inches in five minutes at Newcastle. Commercial. — Breadstuff's are very firm. Trade demand small. Best flour, £19 to £20 ; wheat, Bs. No business. Sailed — -Zealandia. AKAROA, May 11. A heavy tidal wave was experienced here this morning. At seven o'clock, at nearly dead low water, the sea came in with great force, and receded in five minutes, the rise and fall being about eight feet. The waves are coming in at intervals of about twenty minutes. No damage is reported. AUCKLAND, May 11. Mr Buckland reports : — Fat cattle, 25s to 28s per hundred pounds. Sheep slightly advanced in price. Adelaide flour, £22 ; Oamaru, £18 ; Christchurch, £17. Bran, os, bags included. Oats, 3s 4d. Wheat, 3s Gd to Gs Gd. Barley, full of Californium. Potatoes, £4. Oatmeal, £10. Pearl barley, £24. Hams and bacon, 9kl. Cheese and butter, market stocked with local. The tidal wave here this morning rose nine inches. Fears are entertained for the safety of the Sarah pile, which left Kaipara on the 2nd April for Wanganui. No tidings here of her arrival. An inquest on the exhumed remains of Mrs Scott, who died at Onolmnga in child-birth, was concluded yesterday. The verdict was : " Died from rupture of the uterus, not from malpractice." Evidence regarding the analysis showed one thousandth part of a grain of arsenic found on a linen cloth laid under the chin of the corpse, and placed with it in the codin. A theory was sot up by the Coroner that arsenic might have existed in the bottle out of which the gingerbeer was given to the patient. I A large meeting of licensed victuallers was held last night, and a resolution carried that it is desirable to abolish outside lamps, and a reduction of license fees, also in favor of petitioning Parliament for Sunday hours. Colonel Nation was elected unopposed fii'So Mayor of Parnell. Thomas Neallic was killed at Parakura by a falling limb of a tree. Colonial Bank shares, 41s to 42s (id. South British, 80s. National, 30s. Red Queen, 3s (id. Caledonian, double, G2s b'd. Moanatairi closed sellers £!> 15s. CMRISTCHL'RCH, May 11. Grain and produce quotations f.o.b. at Lyttelton : — Wheat, 4s Gd to Us; oats, 2s 8d ; barley, 4s to 5s ; Hour, £30 to £17 ; bran, £4 10s ; sharps, £5 10s ; cheese, 7d ; potatoes, £3. The steam road roller was tried yesterday with great success. J. G. Warner, late railway engineer, was presented on the eve of his departure for Australia with a testimonial and a purse of boys. DUNEDIN, May 11. Wheat aelvancod during the past week, and is now quoted at 5s Gd to Gs ; prime samples, ordinary, 5s to 5s 3d ; inferior milling, 4s (id to 4s 9d ; oats, old, 2s (3d io 2s 8d : new, 2s 4d to 2s Gd ; barley, prime, £4 Gs to £5 ; ordinary, £4. Colonial Bank, 40s to 41s ; New Zealand insurance, 95s ; National Insurance, 31s ; National Bank of New Zealand, G7s ; Standard Insurance Company, 15s ; New Zealand Insurance, SOs ; Mosgiel Woollen Factory, 50b ; Union Steam Shipping Company, £8. LYTTELTON, May 11. The effects of the tidal wave were much felt in Pigeon Bay. The water rose 12ft. above ordinary high water- mark, covering the hand-rail of the wharf. The yacht Jimmy Flynn has been washed into the bush here. TAURANGA, May 11. Tlie tide rose suddenly several feet higher than spring tides, and kept 3'ising ami falling about a foot, at short intervals, all day. WELLINGTON, May 11. James O'Shoa, merchant, has suspended payment. The causes of failure are heavy trade losses on home .shipments, and bad debts. The liabilities are about £22,000. A meeting of creditors will bo held on the 17th inst. Mr O'Shea reports the following produce prices ; — Flour, colonial, scarce at

£16 to £16 10s ; oats, 3s to 3s 3d ; bran, Is ; hams and bacon, 9d to lOd ; cheese, 7cl to 8d ; potatoes, 80s to 85s ; pollard, £7 10s. The scores for the Cadet Championship of the colony are as follows, the ties being decided by the best score at the longest range (300 yards) : — Cadet Mowbray (Wainku) 72 Lieut. Hale (Wellington) 70 Cadet Ansel (Auckland) ... ... 68 Cadet Currie (Waiuku) 67 Sergeant Kettle (Dunedin) ... ... 67 Cadet Williams (Auckland) G4 Cadet Grenville (Thames) 61 Corporal Ballinger (Wellington) ... 60 Cadet Modely (Wellington) 60 Cadet Broughton (Wanganui) ... 60 None of the other twenty competitors made 60 points. Since before eight this morning, a tidal wave was noticed, the rise and fall being about four feet, and the action and reaction occupying about fifteen minutes. It is still going on, but decreasing. At the reclamation works, where the water is confined by an iincompleted breastwork, the tide rushed in and out with a force resembling the tide at the Frenchman's Pass. Telegrams relating to a tidal wave have been received from the following places : — Gisborne, Napier, Lyttelton, Akaroa, Timaru, Oam aru, Port Chalmers, and Bluff. The phenomenon was observed at all the above places this morning after seven, and the rise and fall varied from three to eight feet, to which it rose at Poverty Bay. The ebb and flow each time is described as occupying different times between fifteen minutes and an hour. No damage is reported anywhere. In Wellington the rise and fall slackened at midday, but increased again in the afternoon, and ceased altogether about seven. (from our own correspondent.) DUNEDIN, May 11. Cargill, Gibbs and Co., Dunedin, have received the following from Helmutli Schartz, London, dated London, May 8 : — " The sales opened with a large attendance of both home and foreign buyers. Competition is fairly animated, but prices for fleece, washed, and scoured avools show an average decline of 1-kl to 2d per per lb, and greasy Id per lb, on closing rates of last sales." [from our own correspondent.] GISBORNE, May 11. We have had two heavy tidal waves. One, early this morning, completely submerged the Go-Ahead as she lay on the rocks, and compelled all hands to be sent up to the rigging. The second one occurred at 10. 30 this morning. It was not so violent as the first one. At the inquiry respecting the s. s. GoAhead yesterday, the evidence of Captain Cooper, the master of tho steamer, and of the chief pilot, was directly opposite on the main points. Captain Cooper asserts that Mr Chrisp said it was probable that the steamer would be able to get out, and that Mr Chrisp was on board when she struck. Mr Chrisp states that he informed Mr Cooper there was too much sea on the bar for her to cross safely, but he agreed that it would be possible to get her out, find offered to take the vessel down to the first beacon, when Captain Cooper could cross the bar at his own risk, if he liked. He did not take soundings that morning, as the bar was too rough for an open boat. The vessel is insured in the South British aiul New Zealand Companies for £2000 each. The tidal waves are still of frequent occurrence. The Pretty Jane has taken shelter under Young Nick's Head. She leaves if possible to-morrow. (from our own correspondent. ) WAIROA, May 11. The Wairoa punt will be sold by auction on the 21st May. The upset price will be £7 per month. After June Ist the faros will be reduced about one-third. Mr Webb has sent a pack horse to Gisborne for a supply of papers for the IVairoa Free Press, the first number of which will be issued on Saturday. The bar is, if anything, worse now than when the Manaia got out. The sea is rising again. Supplies are going down fast. The Scamperdown bridge is being rapidly repaired under the supervision of Mr R. Gardiner, and a party of the Armed Constabulary.