CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5046, 6 April 1878, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

(REUTKR'S TEtiHGRAMS TO PRESS AQKNCY.) SYDNEY, April 5. Case brandy, unchanged ; brandy in bulk, quarters, 9s 3d, scarce ; kerosene, unchanged ; rice, £23 10s to £24 ; New Zealand wheat, unchanged ; New Zealand oats, 4s ; tobacco, sugar, and candles, unchanged. ADELAIDE, April 5. Flour, £12 10s to £13 10s; wheat, 5s lid. (prom our own correspondent.) WAIROA, April 5. The Mohaka came in and landed the Herman Brothers and a lot of natives, and then left again for Napier. At an extraordinary meeting of the Council last night, re Sir John Coode coming here, only two councillors voted in favor of such a step. The Result takos for the Napier gaol a debtor sentenced to one month's imprisonment. [FitOM the Press Agency ,J AUCKLAND, April 5. Mr Binney reports flour, new, £14; old flour, £13 ; oatmeal, £20 ; pearl barley, £22 ; oats, 4s 9d ; bran, £6 ; pollard, £6 10s ; maize, 6s ; potatoes, £3 ; cheese, 7d ; butter, 9d. Mr Buckland reports hides, 1-^d to 3|d per lb ; pelts, 4d to 8d ; sheepskins, Is 9d to 3s 6d ; lamb skins, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; wool, locks, Gid to 7M ; fleece in grease, lambs wool, B^d ; washed fleece, Is 3|d ; f.o.b. cattle,~24s to 28a per 100 lbs ; fat sheep, 2jd to 2^d ; good condition pigs, 2|d per lb, livo weight. Share Market. — Bank of New Zealand, £24 ; National, 74s to 75s ; Colonial, 51s 6d to 52s 6d ; National Insurance, 78s ; Auckland Gas Company, £10 ; Thames, 29s ; Union, 15s to 15s 3d ; New Zealand Insurance, 945 ; Guthrie and Larnach, 47s 6d ; Moanatairi, 62s 6d to 655 ; Alburnia, 51s. Sellers, 535 ; Tokatea, £4 4s 6d; Union Beach, 15s. Sellers, 20s. Sir George Arney, writing to a friend in Auckland, denies the rumor of his marriage. The police are making another raid on unstamped weights. The Board of Education have elected j Judge Gillies, Colonel Hamilton, and Mr J. L. Campbell, Grammar School Governors. A discovery has been made of a bed of clay in the North, supposed to be meerschaum. The town clock Avas illuminated last night. In the Supreme Court, Andrew Smith, charged with rape at Coromandel, was acquitted, the witnesses for the defence proving that the girl was a thief and an habitual liar.

The Lsetitia, from New Caledonia, reports that 500 French Communists had arrived there per Higginson, to work in the copper mines by contract for twenty years, at ten cents a head per day. — Noumea has suffered from unprecedented heat. Sunstrokes have been numerous. Great distress prevails through the failure of the bank. A Government enquiry respecting the matter is proceeding. Reforms in the bankruptcy law are advocated. — Six New Hebrides workmen atttempted to escape ; one was killed, and another wounded. — Rich gold haa been discovered at Onebins. Russell, charged with three embezzlements, has been remanded. CHRISTCHURCH, April 5. The grain market is very inactive, buyers showing no disposition to meet farmers' demands. Quotations are as follows : — Wheat, 4s 3d ; oats, 3s 3d to 3s Gd ; barley, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; flour, £12; bran, £4 10s ; sharps, £5 10s. Statistics show a large acreage in potatoes, and low rates are expected to rule. The amount of tonnage on the berth for London is large. The receipts of the Canterbury Board of Education for 1877 were £75,100 ; the expenditure was £58,963. A woolshed on the New Zealand and Australian Land Co.'s run, in the Rakaia district, was destroyed by fire yesterday. It contained grass seed worth £3000, and grain worth £2000. The total of the damages is d£7500, partially insured. At a meeting of the Philosophical Institute, Dr Von Haast said that a kitchen midden, 20 miles long and 300 or 400 yards wide, exists in the colony, and that some day he intends exploring 1 it, with the view of obtaining information of the antiquity of man in New Zealand. KUMARA, April 5. Some days ago Mr Brown, of the Knmara, Times, issued a writ against Father Henneberry for slander, the damages being set down at £1000, but it was not served in the hope that Father Henneberry would retract. To-day Mr Brown's solicitors received an extraordinary letter from Father Henneberry, covering ten sheets of paper, threatening that if the action was proceeded with the police would be at Mr Brown's door. Mr Brown has instructed his solicitors to serve the writ at once. HOKITIKA, April 5. The jury in Ryan's case have been locked up since 5 o'clock this afternoon, and there appears no likelihood of an agreement. NELSON, April 5. The census returns for the city of Nelson show the number of males to be 3380; females, 3582; total, 0862. In 1874 the total was 5860. OAMARTJ, April 4. The Customs returns for the March quarter amounted to £3990, against £3783 for the same quarter in 1877. TAUPO, April 5. Pohipi, one of the leading natives, has returned to live here, after an absence of twelve months. He was received with welcome by Europeans and natives. WELLINGTON, April 4. In the Supreme Court, Patrick Shine, for robbing lodgers in an hotel, was brought for sentence. Previous convictions at Auckland were proved against him, and he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. In the Supreme Court to-day, J. Riordan was acquitted of larceny. John Simmonds, charged with forgery, was found guilty, but a point was reserved for the Court of Appeal. Amos James Tudball, forgery, four years penal servitude. The following sentences were passed : — Hobert M'Farlane, jun., forgery, six months' hard labor ; Henry Richardson, forgery, nine months' hard labor ; James Mills, forgery, eighteen months' hard labor ; Charles Smith, larceny, six months' hard labor; Charles M'Gunndigan, indecent assault, two years' hard labor; George Stevens, larceny, twelve months' hard labor ; William Phillips, larceny, twelve months' hard labor. WELLINGTON, April 5. In the Supreme Court to-day Mr Barton moved for a rule nisi calling upon T. K. M'Donald, R. Kent, C. M'Kirdy, and J. H. Bethune, to show cause why an. attachment should not be issued against them for contempt of Court, in selling the shares of the plaintiff, E. T. 'Gillon, in the Argus Newspaper Company, the matter being then in the hands ■of the Court. In support of the application, he read an affidavit by G. Lestrange Barton, showing that he hao handed to the auctioneer, Mr Bethune, a protest against the sale on behalf of Mr Gillon. The motion was ultimately adjourned until Tuesday. Mr George Thomas reports : — Flour , £13 to £13 ss; oats, 4s 3d to 4s 6d. scarce ; bran, Is 2d, in good demand ; wheat, 4s ; hams, 9d ; bacon, 8d ; cheese. 7|d; pollard, £7 10s; potatoes, £5; maize, 5s 6d. In consequence of the rapidly diminishing quantity of water in the reservoir, the water supply for the city will, from tomorrow, be again cut off during the day, otherwise, it is said, that in less than a week the supply would be exhausted.