ACTIVE DEMAND AT LONDON WOOL SALES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3708, 4 June 1883, Page 3

ACTIVE DEMAND AT LONDON WOOL SALES.

DELIVERY OF HOMEWARD AUSTRALIAN MAILS. CHIEF JUSTICE WRENSFORDSLEY CREATED A KNIGHT BARONET. EXECUTION OF ANOTHER OF THE PHCENIX PARK ASSASSINS. EARL DERBY AND THE ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA. RUMORED INCREASE OF NAVAL FLEETS IN CHINESE WATERS. LONDON. June 1. At to-day's wool sales 10,100 bales were catalogued. An active demand was experiencedfor all descriptions. The homewardluailsper Orient steamship Potosi, from Melbourne on April '20, were delivered via Naples to-day. June 2. It is announced that Chief Justice Wronsfordsloy has been created a Knight Bachelor. Thomas Caffory, one of tho Phccnix Park murderers, was hanged at Dublin to-day. He confessed his guilt. Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in replying to a deputation of the Colonial Institute which waited upon him to urge the annexation of New Guinea, stated that ho wns in favor of the annexation, and that the matter would be decided by the Cabinet as soon as Sir Arthur Kennedy's despatches had been received. A statement which had been circulated to tho contrary, Lord Derby added, was purely imaginary. Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, and the Hon. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General of New South Wales, spoke in favor of the annexation. Mr Thomas Archer, the Queensland Agent-General, stated that his Government only desired the annexation of the unclaimed portions of the island. It is rumored that the naval fleets in Chinese waters are about to be increased by the various Powers. The report is, however, unconfirmed. At the wool sale to-day 11,100 bales were catalogued. The tone of the sale was firm.