("Special to Pbegs association.! LONDON, Fbb. 19. Finest New Zealand cheese is selling ia Q-lasgow and the English Provinces at 52* to 545. The pig iron market in' Glasgow is disorganised, owing to the squaring up of oversold accounts. Some has been sold at 50 j. Tallow. — Mutton, medium, 34s 6d ; beef 32s 61. The quantity of wool catalogued to date is 275,400 bales, of which 16,000 have been taken for export, and 98,000 j for the Home trade. 32,400 bales are held over till the next sales.
WORE AND WAGES.
[Special to Pbess Association.! SYDNEY, Feb. 20. The miners in the Metropolitan Colliery, Clifton, have struck against a reduction in the hewing rates.
SHIPS WRECKED.
•— [Special to Pbess Association.] SYDNEY, Feb. 20. The captain of the Auckland trader Jessie, which was wrecked at Long Mand, has arrived here, and reports that they had to land through a terrible surf. The vortex of a cyclone approaching the vessel rendered this course necessary in order to save life. The jetty was demolished, and a number of houses were completely blown away. The barquentine Bluster, bound for Port Chalmers, went ashore in a gale at Wool goolga. The crew, are safe.
Mishap to Picnickers.
[Special to Paxaa Association.! MELBOUBNE, Feb. 20. A small steamer, with a hundred picnickers, foundered on Lake Wendouree, but all ou board were saved.
THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS.
