BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1106, 13 February 1879, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from our OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Duned'lN, this day, noon. Markets.—ln wheat there is nothing doing at .'ss 3d ; outs are 3s 8d ; and barley, 6s per bushel. Beef is 32s 6il per lOOlbs, and mutton, 2d per lb. The Otago Acclimatisation Society have sent Mr Deane to Queenstown to arrange for the reception of 250,000 white fish ova due by next mail. " John Cohen, the notorious bookmaker, and James Brosland, formerly a jockey, got three months and one month respectively yesterday for robbing a till of the Shamrock Hotel. Walsh, the wife-murderer, is to be hanged, probably on the 18th. The warrant is on its way down from Wellington. The ship Fiji has arrived from London with 41 passengers. Canterbury has beaten the Otago cricketers by one innings and 12 runs, the scoring being 103 against 77 and 74. The Governor calls heie on the 17th, when there will be a great demonstration. Templeton and Chancellor are first favorites for the Cup at 7 to 1, Titanic and Mata 8 to 1, Fishhook and Camballo 10 to 1. The Hon. Mr Macandrew has promised that the Oamaru and Livingstone railway shall be pushed on with at once. Mr Gotiever, the Coiporation gas engineer, has been dismissed from office. Mr Cor.yers, Kail way Commissioner, is now convalescent, and returns shortly to Christchurch. A great review of the South Island Volunteers'is to be held at Invercargill on Easter Monday. The Waste Lands Board have recommended Government to accept the surrender of D. A. Cameron's license for run No. 10, Wakatipu. A fire at Gisborne, destroyed thirteen buildings, doing damage to the extent of over .£20,000. Buildings were insured for £14,000; of which £0,050 is in the N. /j- otiice. A miner named Stafford has been killed at Staffordtown, near llokitika, by a tree falling on him while working a sluicing claim. At Christchurch, Edward Clarkston hasty en committed for trial for indecently ass Hiking his mother. The' Frisco mail arrived at Auckland this morning.