SECOND EDITION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4158, 18 August 1881, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

[Reuter's Telegrams.]

LONDON, August 16. The MarketsCon sold remain at 100^-- New Zealand securities continue at tbe following quotations: — 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 105 ; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 104£ ; A\ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 101| ex div. Adelaide and New Zealand breadstuff a continue firm at 52s for Adelaide wheat, at 38s for Adelaide flour ex warehouse, and 51s Gd for New Zealand wheat ex ship. Australian tallow is unchanged at 34s 6d for best beef, and 36s 6d for best mutton. The Mails. The Homeward Australian mails, which left Melbourne on July 5, were delivered, via, Brindisi, to-day. WASHINGTON, August 17. State of the President. This morning's bulletin reports that President Garfield is still in a very critical state ; but his case is not considered hopeless. CALCUTTA, August 17. The Ameer's Movements. Telegrams are to hand to-day from j Afghanistan, reporting that the troops recently desphtched by the Ameer to Khelat-i-Kiljee, on the road between Cabul and Candahar, have now evacuated that place. The object of the movement has not transpired. SYDNEY, August 18. More Small-pox. Mrs Hains, the wife of the man Hains, who died of small-pox at the Quarantine station on August 7, is now attacked with the disease, and has been removed into the infected enclosure.

TTEW PLYMOUTH, August 18. The Condemned Works. A meeting was held at Waitara last evening for the purpose of considering the present state of the harbour question — especially with reference to the Parliamentary Committee's report on New Plymouth harbour — when the following (which was an amendment to a resolution) was earned by fourfifths of these present : — " That the Colony has pledged itself to the carrying out of the Haw Plymouth Harbour Works, and upon the faith of that pledge very many persons have settied and invested in this district, both in the purchase of Crown land and otherwise, and this meeting is of opinion that the stoppage of the harbour works would be a gross violation of public faith guaranteed by Legislative enactment, and would inflict an injury on the whole district." At the public meeting, which was the largest ever held at Waitara, there were persons from all portions of the provincial district, tbe matter was fully discussed, and it was conclusively shown that the figures quoted in the Parliamentary report were wrong. Amongst other things it was stated that in six weeks' time the cement for the works, which is expected to arrive in Wellington from England can be landed at the end of the breakwater, which will then be sufficiently completed, by vessels of small draught; also, that with the plant now on the ground, the breakwater can Be extended to 21ft of water at low spring tide for the money now in hand. The present superintendent of the works was engaged on the Aberdeen breakwater, and also successfully built the one at Arbroath, and before leaving the latter place he was presented with a valuable testimonial for the successful manner in which he carried out the work, and he therefore speaks from experience. He states that the work can be done for the money. The Harbourmaster saya that for 300 days out of the year vessels can lie alongside the wharf. WELLINGTON, August 18. Going to Fiji. His Excellency will embark on the Emerald for Fiji at Auckland, bhe is expected to arrive at Auckland about the second week in September. Sentences. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Christina Wilson, an old offender, was sentenced to two years' hard labour on two oharges of larceny from St Mary's Cathedral. A seaman of the barque Berwickshire was sent to gaol for three months for broaching cargo.