LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 110, 29 April 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Per Press Agency.] AUCKLAND. April 26. Tlio Southern Groan otrttos that “ tllG rcporiecl proposal to visit the Maori King lias been abandoned, Tawhaio manifesting no desire to meet his Excellency.” April 27. The Waikato Times denounces the Wanaw/a (Maori) m-wsparer as treasonsble, by fomenting rebellion amongst the natives, and urges its immediate suspension by ihc Government. April 28. llimiona, sentenced to death for murdering a man under the belief that he had exorcised wite'u raft, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. Frisco Mail Steamer signalled. LYTTELTON. April 27. During the gale last night the stcamc r Beautiful Star drove on to one of the wharves, where a bolt head or pile cut one of her plates below the water line. The accident was not discovered until 4.30 this morning, when both the fore and main holds were full of water. Steam was got up, and the vessel beached in Dampier’s Bay. She had about a hundred tons of cargo on board at the time. The damage will bo repaired on Saturday. WELINGTON. April 26. Telegraphic communication between Australia and Europe is now completely interrupted. The cable is broken about 36 miles from Port Darwin. Company’s steamer Edinburgh will probably be sent to repair it. Mr Bannatyne has received a cablegram from a New York firm to the effect that a Maori with native costume is wanted for the Philadelphia exhibition. Passage there and back, and expenses in America assured. April 28. The City Council have increased the salaries of all its officers proportionately, to the salary of the Town Clerk being increased from £3OO to £4OO. O’Shea reports wholesale produce prices : —Flour, £ll to 11 £ll 15 ; best brands milling oats, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Bacon and hams scarce Is to Is Id ; potatoes 90s to 100s. NELSON. April 26. The race meeting next week promises to bo most successful. Entries for the Steeplechases closed last night. Eleven for former, and nine for latter. HOKITIKA. April 28. Professor Bickerton, of Christchurch, at a request of Superintendent has analysed a sample of Mount Rangitoto silver ore, and gives following result : —Lead 51 per cent; silver 70 to 80 ounces per ton, with an appreciable amount of gold. NAPIER. April 28. McLean reports a fair attendance at bis auction sale yesterday, Poverty Bay. Grass seed part damaged, 4s to 4s 9 d. Omavu seed potatoes £6 per ton. Bacon sales satisfactory. CHRISTCHURCH. April 27. The railway strike is at end. Mr Stead, of tiro firm of Royse and Stead, interested himself to-day in bringing about an

amicable arrangement between the men on strike and the Government, and was successful. April 2g. Wheat f.o.b. at Lyttelton, 4s to 4s 9d ; oats, 2s ; barley, 4s ; flour £lO 15s to £ll 10s ; rye grass, Gs to Gs 6d ; cheese, 9.J ; bran, £5 ; sharps, £5 10s ; potatoes, £3 10s. The shipping has been greatly retarded, owing to railway strike, and bad weather. Bran and sharps very scarce.