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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 853, 27 January 1883, Page 2

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[reuter’s telegrams—copyright.] r The London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 26. The first of the year’s series of. Colonial wo®l auctions opens on Feb-u ruary 20th. The arrivals to date comprise 110,000 bales. The total pro*-, bable quantity to be offered, including the quantity held over from last salesjt is 270,000 bales. The quantity of new, arrivals to be included in the sales ha* been restricted by the Importers’ Comf mittee to 250,000. Mr Gladstone's Health. News is to hand from Cannes that Mr Gladstone is daily improving .in health, and is now no longer troubled with sleeplessness. Imprisoned.

Healy and Davitt, who were yesterday required to find bail for their good) behaviour or to be imprisoned for six months, have refused to find the necessary sureties, and they have consequently to undergo imprisonment. The Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales has left England on a visit to Cannes, in the South’, of France. >T Monetary and Commercial. Consols are quoted at 102%, being' a further advance of The Bank rate to-day was’ reduced to 4 percent j the market rate remains at *Thd^ total reserye in notes and bullion in Pank of England is L 12,400,000, being 3 an increase of a millionsincelaatt Thursday. The proportion of reserve** to liabilities is 44 per cent. THete strife* 1 no'changes to report in New Zealand': securities,, Colonial breadstuffs L or low. ‘ . Jslo

(Received Jan. 27, 1.30 p.m.) London, Jan 26. For 'Australian hides there is at present only a.limited demand, and prices are >6 to lower. Obituary. ■ The death is announced of Herr Von Flotow, German musician, aged 7i- ' ■ • [Received Jan. 27, 2.10 p.m.] J * ’ A Disastrous Gale. A terrific gale has been experienced ,in the Northern and West districts of . England, and has done an immense amount of harm, both inland and at sea. • The havoc in places has been most disastrous, and many shipwrecks ■ bn- the coast are reported. The Bonapartists. ; * ' Paris, Jan. 25, 1 The Committee appointed by the

Chamber of Deputies to consider a Bill introduced..by the Government dealing : with the question of Bonapartist mani- , festos has decided that the measure , should provide that all Bonapartists ‘Should be cashiered from the army and expelled from the country. The Go- " vernmenf, however, dissent from the , finding o| ihe^Committee. Illness of the French Premier, i , Paris, Jan. 26. v M. Duclerc, President of Council of . Ministers, is seriously indisposed. U The Russian Minister in Austria. r ‘ ' Vienna, Jan. 23. ■ . Giers, the Russian Minister of Affairs, , who is now visiting . Vienna, has been publicly feted and - accorded a grand reception.