LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1655, 29 July 1873, Page 4

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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Inter-JProvincial. Weiiington, July 28, The deputation from the Albion Goal Company meet Mr. Vogel after the Financial Statement. Cheistchttech, July 25. Boyse and Co. quote a steady demand for flour at £12 to £1210 a ; wheat wanted at 53 ; oats, 4i 9d to 4s 10 j butter, Is j cheese, B^d—all free on board. Dtjnedin, July 25. Flour, £12 10a per ton ; oatmeal, £24; pearl barley, £32 l bran, £3 10s; pollard, £5 j wheat, 5s 3d to 5s 6u per bushel; oats, 43 to 4s 3d; barley, 7b. July 28. The Provincial Council was prorogued to-day. The race for the Championship between Fox and Drake, was won by the former. New Pi.xmoitth, July 28. The first sod of the Waitara railway will be turned early next month by Mr*. Henderson, of Wellington. Auckland, July 25. An inquest has been held on the body of the Bey. Mr. Hamilton. The following evidence was given :— The body was found in a sitting position in a waterhole near the creek j a white handkerchief was tied round his head, he having lost his hat. There were no marks of violence, and the skin was sodden, as if it had been in the water a long time. It is believed that while walking during the night he must have fallen over a rock to the place where he was found. The Terdict was " Accidental death." The funeral waa very largely attended. There is a steady demand for dairy cattle, though no improvement ia price. A full supply of fat cattle opened at £1 10, bat fell to £1 7s and £1 8s per lOOlbs. . , Flour—Dunedin, £14, ,to ,£l4 103 per ton ; Oamaru, £15 ; Canterbury,^l2los to £13. Wheat, 6s 3d to 6s'6d; oats, 5s 6d to 6s. Gbahamstown, July 25. Seventeen and a half tons of stone have been crushed from Point Russell, and yielded 138 ounces of retorted gold. Hokitika, July 28. The Bangitoto, Captain Mackie, from Melbourne, arrived at 7 a.m to-day, and was tendered at 1 p.m. She haa 18 saloon and 20 steerage passengers; and 326 tons of cargo for. all ports. She has sailed for Nelson. Passenger for Nelson: Captain Palmer. v Fiji (via Auckland). 'Fiji advices received at Auckland states that the Chiefs Maaferj and Tiu Kakau have seceded from the Government. Cakobau took over 1000 prisoners of war. Captain Daggett, of the echooner Quickstep, is reported to have been killed by the Launa natives.