CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 21, 3 December 1874, Page 6

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

i London, November 19th. i The London Colonial wool sales opened lon the 17th. The total arrivals amount to j more than 80,000 bales, of which upward? lof 5,500 bales were offered. Gape of Good iHo tte wool preponderated. Home buyer;* j were more numerous than those from I foreign countries, the .bidding commenced with great spirit, and the prices ranged about the same aa at the last series. The steamer Great Britain arrived at Holyhead on the l9tb of November. ! Mr Disraeli hss written to Sir Henrr I Creswick Rawlm-ion (who has been ior many years one of the most distinguished members of the Koyal Geographical Society) j announcing that a new expedition would be j despatched to the Polar region?. The project is supported on the ground that it i.« advisable to encourage a spirit of maritime enterprise among the English p.eoole. Alexander M\Ewtni, a speculator on the stock exchange, has failed with liabilities amounting to L400,000. Wheat firmer ; Australian worth 49a to 54s psr quarter. A new Anglo- Australian Steam Company has been announced with a capital of half a million 'sterling. The mails from Sydney, via San Francisco, were delivered on the 18th. Mr William Cleaver Robinson succeeds Mr Weld as Governor of Western Australia. At London, tbe Colonial wool sales have been opened. Competition well maintained. The following telegram is from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Cumpany, dated London, November 18th, says: — * k Wool sales opened level, and the last sale comprised about 88,000 bales ; 7000 bales have been sent to the rnarmfacturing districts direct. For Cape of Good Hope scoured, the market i* easier.