VALUES UNCHANGED AT THE WOOL MARKET.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3796, 14 September 1883, Page 3

VALUES UNCHANGED AT THE WOOL MARKET.

THE FRANCO-CHINESE DIFFICULTY. LONDON. September S. The wool sales are continuing. One hundred and eighty-eight thousand bales have been catalogued, and 22,000 bales withdrawn. Values ai-o unchanged, and the market is weak, owing to the small demand for the Continent. Messrs Schwartz and Co. attribute tho action of the foreign buyers in abstaining from purchasing to the unsatisfactory condition in which most of the Australian wool reaches the market.

September 9. The French Press disavows any intention of annexing the New Hebrides. Sir Vernon Harcourt has asked the Marquis Tseng to submit fresh proposals with regard to the Chinese difficulty. The French tone on tho subject is moderating, but tho Marquis Tseng lias, in an interview, intimated that it will be regarded as a declaration of war if the French attempt to reinforce while the parleying is going on. News from Hong Kong on Saturday states that tho garrisons to the north have been reinforced, and that the Government have depleted the banks. Chatham Dockyard is busy preparing and despatching reinforcements to the fleet in Chinese waters, and a German squadron has been ordered to cruise in those ports to renssure German residents.

The Euphrates, from Adelaide, has arrived at Falmouth damaged, having collided with a barque off Ushant. Hanlon has challenged Laycock to a match for £2000, to be rowed on tho Thames.

September 10. The efforts being made in Bulgaria to Russianise the people in defiance of the wishes of Prince Alexander arc likely to cjiuso some strain in the relations between Russia and Germany,

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