WELLINGTON.
March 29. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency has received the following telegram, dated London, March 27th : — " Wool sales closed firmly. 28,000 bales have been held over for future disposal, and 24,000 have been withdrawn. During the sales 18,000 bales been taken for export. Salos closed at a decline of one halfpenny to a penny per lb. The principal decline has been m crossbred, lambs of superior quality, and washed clothing and combing qualities." Wheat market quiet. Adelaide worth 49a ; New Zealand, 475. Tallow flat, mutton 355, beef 33a 6d. In leather there is a trade demand for good best sides at 9£. A Gazette issued to-day announces the Governor will hold a levee on Thursday next ; also that the Hon Plenry Stuart Lyfctelton has been appointed Private Secretary, and Captain E. B. St. John, 35th Regiment, aide-de-camp to the Governor. The Governor's Reception Committee have decided to invite his Excellency to a public ball to be given m his honor by the citizens. His Excellency has accepted the invitation and the ball takes place shortly after Easter. Mr. Crawford, late Resident Magistrate left last evening m the Rotorua for San Francisco. It is the intention of the Government to put a further quantity of the Thorndon reclamation land into the market at no distant date.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 664, 31 March 1879, Page 2
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