CABLEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7195, 15 December 1891, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph— Per UnitediPress Association LONDONj December 13. The Auckland Harbor Board's four per cent and five per cent stock has risen by £1. Part of the butter by the Pakeha and Tainui waa not sold, being below the quality suitable for counter trade. Messrs Trengouse aud Co. say that only the finest quality will overcome the prejudice of buyers. The brokers are reducing the prices by two and three shillings. The ' Grooers' Gazette' states that all prices wi'l probably rise. Tallow: Medium mutton, 25s 6d ; medium beef, 24s 6d. The English wheat market is firmer, the Continental depressed, and the American improving. HOBAET, December 14; The barquentine Seabird, from New Zealand, is afchore in Maoquarie harbor, but no livea have been lost. She will probably be floated off. ADELAIDE, December 14. A disastiona oyclone and terrific hailstorm, reembling an American blizzard, devastated ten thousand acres of counts y near Teckera and Badina, in the northarn part of York6's Peninsula, cutting a path three miles in j width. The damaga is estimated at £15,000. j SYDNEY, ' December 14. The Typographical Association, after passing a resolution approving of the action of the German printers in going out on strike, referred their appeal for monetary assistanoe to the Australasian Typographical Union, being of opinion that tha qaestion was a national one.