TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3897, 26 July 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

('FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Foxton, Friday. The last rail of the Foxton and . Palmerston tramway was laid at three o'clock to-day. There was no excitement, owing to the extraordinary delay in its construction, it being over twenty months since it was first commenced. The distance is only twenty-five miles. [ ANGLO - AUSTRALIAN PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] Auckland, Friday. There is a steady demand for dairy cattle, though no improvement in price. A full supply of fat cattle opened at 30a, but fell to 27s and 28s per lOOlbs. Flour— Dunedin, £14 to £14 10s per ton ; Oamaru, £15 ; Canterbury, £12 10s to £33. Wheat, 6s 3d to 6s 6d ; oats, 5s 6d to 6s. Alex. Saunders quotes : — Caledonians, £18 I.os ; Tookey, £9 ss ; Albion, £5 • Beach, 235; Moanatairi, 455; Red Queen, 3s 6dj City of London, 275; South British, 47a ; National Bank, 32s 6d. Dunedin, Friday. The Provincial Council closes on Monday, and the members of Assembly leave the same day for Wellington. Flour, £12 10s per ton ; oatmeal, £24 ; pearl barley, £32 ; bran, £3 10s ; pollard, £5 ; wheat, 5s 3d to 5s 6d per bushel ; oats, 4a to 4s 3d ; barley, 7s. Christchurch, Friday. Royse and Co. quote a steady demand for flour at £12 to £12 10s ; wheat 1 wanted at ss ; oats, 4a 9d to 4s lOd j butter, Is ; cheeae, B£d, — all free on ; board. Wanganui, Friday. The stock market is unchanged. The schooner Meteor is breaking up. The cargo has all been saved. Qukenstown, Friday. The resignation of Mr Hallenstein has been very loudly censured, and his conduct has been severely blamed. Eight candidates are spoken of for his seat — Messrs. Maunders, Innes, Barton (Queenstown), Fisher, Pyke, Barton (Dunedin), Colclough, and Tully. Grahamstown, Friday. Seventeen and a half tons of stone have been crushed from Point Russell, and yielded 138 ounces of retorted gold. A second trial of atone from the Pumping Association's shaft has taken place today, and no gold found. Greymouth, Friday. £2000 worth of Greymouth Corporation have been debentures taken up at an average of 7£ per cent. No banks tendered.