TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 22 January 1898, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Wellington, January 21 . It is understood that the members of the Police Commission will meet at Wellington in a few days to arrange their itinerary. Mr Tunbridge, Commissioner of Police, will accompany the CommiBeion. Mrs Johnston, wife of William Johneton, builder, Rolleston-street, died suddenly in bed this morning of heart disease. Auckland, January 21. E. M. Corbett, the well-known mining expert, has been killed in a coach accident at Waitekauri. COMMERCIAL. Pbr Press Association. — By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. London, January 21. The American visible wheat supply is 52,080,000 quarters. Wool is firm with keen competition. Merinos were fully 5 per cent, above December's closing rates. Mutton tallow : Fine quality 225, medium 20s. Beef : Fine 20s 6d, medium 18s 6d. The N.Z.L. and M. A. Co. received a London market cable dated 19th January, 1898. Wool.— The sales opened at an average advance of £d per lb on last sale's prices. Crossbred, market unchanged. Competition by both Home and Foreign buyers is active, and their attendance is good. The opening catalogue contained 7,500 bales, but was not a representative one. The total quantity available, including wool held over from last series, is 341 bales, 70,000 bales of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct. Tallow is in good demand. Medium tallow has advanced 3d per cwt since last report.