THE LATEST.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 17

THE LATEST.

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(Received March 14, 1 p.tn.) Sydney, March 14. A man who waj sentenced to 18 months’imprisonment for personation has made a confession in writing, showing there was a widespread conspiracy to personate voters at the recent elections. He implicates 24 other people. Arrived —Lubeck, s.s., from Samoa. She does not bring any fresh news. The Queen’s Jubilee fund has reached L 16.000. A Bill will be introduced in Parliament to devote the money to the relief of women in distress, and a council of twenty women will be appointed to control the fund. A. man named Davis has surrendered himself to the police at Broken Hill, and confessed that he poisoned a man named George 18 months ago. Brisbane, March 14.

Sir Somers Vine is now actively engaged on his mission to explain to the people of the colonies the objects and aims of the Imperial Institute. He states that the Prince of Wales desired him to thank the colonists for their munificent contributions to the Institute. Melbourne, March 14. The average yield of barley this season is nearly ten bushels per acre below that of last year. London, March 13. Shaw, Savill and Oo.’s chares are quoted afc £9. Belgrade, March 14. The Servia Government has decided to reduce the standing army by onehalf. London, March 14. It is generally reported that the proposed Department of Agriculture will be placed under the control eff Mr Henry Chaplin as Minister of Agriculture. The steamer Benefactor, of Liverpool, ran down the ship Plover, of London, off Dungeness, and the latter sank. Obituary—Earl Radnor. (Received March 13, 2.30 p.m.) Sydney, March 14. Potatoes, New Zealand floureries LlO ss, Circular Heads L 5 ; onions, Victorian Ll2, New Zealand LlO to Lll; maize, 3s 6d, sound old sorts 3s Bd, weovily 2s 6d; oats, inferior sorts 2s 6d to 2s Sd, heavy feed sorts 2s lOd to 3s, milling sorts 3s to 3s 2d ; bran, firmer, being scarce, Is Id to Is chick, 3s 3d to 3s Gd ; milling 4s 8d to 5s ; peas, blue Prussian 4s 6d to 4s 9d; Cape barley, 3s 6d to 3s 7d, market bare ; butter, locally made, Is 4d to Is 6d, best imported separator Is Id to Is 3d, dairy IQd to, 3=B cheese, locally made 4d to New Zealand, 5d to 7g;d baaon, New Zealand 9d to 1.0$; chaff, New Zealand L 5 10s to £6. Melbourne, March 14. The parcels of wheat placed yesterday aggregated forty thousand bags, beside nearly five thousand auctiqmed. Sales have been made Dp to 5s I,os ; 6s asked for, B,ran, Is 3dholders asking 3,8 4d. Oa.ts —Calcutta, 3s. 7d stout, 4a id seed, 4s 6d. Maizes, 4a 6d ; peas, 4s 7d to 4s Sd, Sugartt? Strong, good, China whites, L24<. March 13, Wheat, firm, S 3 at Part Adelaide; 4s to 4s iOd at oulports. FlourRoller makes, Lll 5s to Ll2 ; stone makes, Lll. Bran. Is; pollard, Is Id; oats, 4s to 4s3d ; barley, malting, ss. Sugar—Best China whites, L 24 12s 6d ; grey, 20s less ; brewing crystals, L 23,