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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1095, 8 November 1883, Page 2

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[ > [reOTKr's TELEGRAMS :—COPYRIGHT, ]' ■ ’ ’ [Received Nor. 8,11.20 a-mi] ’*'• Death of the False, Prophet. .■; Alexandria, No,v. 7- , Reports have reached here-frojn Soudan, that El Mahdi, the False :Pfophet, and leader of the rebellion in Kordofan is dead. • Honors for Colonials. Amsterdam, Nov. 7. The Executive Commissioners' for the Netherlands have made, a recommendation to the Minister for Foreign Affairs that decorations should beferrtd upon representatives from the 8 Australasian colonies at the recent Ex* hibition in this city. 1 Sailed. Melbourne, To-day. Sailed, yesterday afternoon The Ringarooma, for the Bluff. [Received Nov. 8, 12.40 p.m.] Affairs in Tonanin* Paris, Nov. 7. Official despatches from Tonquin announce that Admiral Courbet has decided to postpone, until next month, his projected advance against Had Ninh. Telegrams are also to . hand stating that the Chinese are preparing to offer a desperate resistance to tbe French attack. . , \

AUSTRALIAN.

_— i [reuter's telegrams—copyright.] The Markets. Melbourne,, Yesterday* , : The Melbourne Manager of the. National Mortgage and Agency Company New Zealand, Limited, reports on. the local grain market as follows Wheat is depressed. Shipping parcels are quoted at 4s 3d; malting barley' at 4s 8d to 5s sd; quotations are nominal. New Zealand oats are quiet; feeding sorts stand at as lod to 3s id; milling do, at 3s id to 3s ad. The Wool Sales. At their wool sales this week Messrs! Goldsbrough and Co, Limited, sold 4,500 bales. Greasy merino brought up to i4d; scoured pieces, to iß^d. [Received Nov. 8; 12.40 p.m.] • The Rodondo. Melbourne, To-day.

The steamship Rodondo which went ashore on the Lonsdale reef on Tues? day night and was subsequently beached, is now full of water, and her position is deemed very critical, [Received Nov. 8, 2.10 p.m.] , ::j Arrival * Sydney, To day. Arrived, yesterday—Wakatipu, s,s,,

from Wellington. The Queensland Parliament- ' Brisbane, To-day. The newly elected Parliament'met yesterday, when Mr Groom, an Opposition candidate, was appointed/ Speaker in the Legislative Assembly by a majority of 29 to 18.