TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 419, 31 August 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from the press aoency.) * AUCKLAND. August 30. Mr. Binney reports :—Adelaide flour, L 23 ; Melbourne, L2l ; Southern, LIS ; sharps, L 8 10s ; bran, L 5 10s ; oats, 3s 9d ; potatoes, L 3 5s to L 3 10s ; oatmeal, L2O to L2l ; pearl barley, L 24 ; onions, lis 2d ; butter, Is 6d ; cheese, 6d to 7d ; bacon, 7W. Share market : Sellers Bank of" New Zealand, L 22 ; South British Insurance, 80s. Buyers—Standard, 16s 6d ; Thames Gas, 28s 6d ; Moanatairi, L 7 ; Alburnia, L 5 15s ; Kurunui, 20s ; Piako, 15s Bd. Samoan advices state that the war is over. The victorious party which now forms the present Government aro those who sided with Steinberger. The chiefs of the defeated tribes took refuge in the British Consulate. The victors demanded their surrender, guaranteeing that they should not be injured. Tiie Consul refused, and called upon the captain of the schooner John Wesley to take his despatches to the Governor of Fiji, which he reluctantly complied with, being bound elsewhere on missionary work.

DUNEDIN. August 30. The following are the quotations for today : —Fat stock, beef, 27s 6d per lOOlbs; mutton, 25s ; wheat, no transactions, prices remain unaltered ; oats, 3s 4d to 3s 8J ; barley, 3, 31 to 3s 6.1. Shares Bank of New Zealand, L 22 10s ; Colenial 43s ; Nationial Insurance, 32s 6d ; Standard, 18s ; South British, 80s ; New Zealand, 92s 6d ; Union, 5s premium. —— o ■ KUMARA. August 31. R. M. Hog?, late agent in charge of the Bank of 3 New South Wales, was examined before' the Magistrate yesterday. The evidence showed that the prisoner had confessed to the police that he alone had concocted the late robbery on the bank. He was thereupon committed to take his trial at next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. «, WESTPORT. August 31. At the skating, a man named Petrie, a clerk in the Bank of New Zealand, broke his leg yesterday.