CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1283, 18 June 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

'.ATbST- FROM EUROPE* [rbUTBR*3 TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] Tbe Egyptian Congress. London, June 16. In the House of Lords to-day. Earl Kimberley was questioned regarding the progress which has been made in connection with the negotiations for holding a projected conference on the Egyptian affairs. In reply, Lord Kim- - beriey stated that an agreemeat had been come to with the French Government as to the basis upon which the proceedings of the Conference should take place, and that the matter had -been submitted foi consideration to other European Powers. ; The Abyssinian Expedition.

■ Admiral Sir William Hewitt, commanding the East Indian squadron, has arrived at Aden from Abyssinia.

The Mails. The Homeward mails, Suez, and Brindisi, from Melbourne, rMay j6tki were delivered on Saturday. San Francisco, June 16.

The steamship Zealandia, with the <- Homeward mails, dated Auckland, • May. 27th, arrived here yesterday. a •• , .. 1 ■ f AUSTRALIA;'*. ) (REOTER’sTfiLEGRAMS —CO FYBIGHT.) 5 Shipping. ’ ’ bydsSt. Yesterday. * Arrived, this morning The Union | Steamship Company’s Tarawera from Dunedin. The Football TeamSailed, at eight o’clock—The Wakatipu for Wellington. The football team are passengers for We’lington. The Tichborne Claimant. At application was made at the Supreme Court to-day for the release of a lunatic named Cressvyell now confined in the Parramatta Asylum, and alleged by the Tichborne claimant to be identical with Arthur Orton. The application was adjourned for three months. [Received June 18, 12.80 p.m j A Serious Fire. Sydney, To-day. A disastrous fire occurred last night at Sutton’s tobacco factory, by which the whole premises and contents were totally destroyed. The stock of to, bacco, which was in the building isestimated to have been worth Lio,ooo. The insurances are as yet unknown, but the United Manchester and three New Zealand Companies are known to be interested. The Markets. M&lbodkns, To-day. The local manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, reports of the Melbourne grain market as follows;—Shipping wheat is steady at 4s ad to 4s 3d. Malting barley quieter, but steady at 4s 3d to 4s zod. New Zealand oats, feeding, is in fair demand at as rod to 3s ad; milling steady at 3s ad to 39 3d.. New Zealand oats, under bend, are quiet at as 6d to as Bd.

\ II [ll nil If "Nilii \'Z__jjs ■ ([Received Jane 18, 3 „.»’•] Sailed. m , . Melbourne, To-day. Sailed, this morning—Te Anau, for ' tlie Bluff. The New Guinea Expedition. The- Age has received a telegram from their special correspondent des- '■■■■■■> patched to New Guinea, reporting his return to Thursday Island, North Queensland. The telegram states that the advance of the expedition was Stopped by 1,200 natives, but that fully 6oo)miles into the interior of ' New Guinea were travelled over. One of the party is missing.