CLOSE OF THE WOOL SALES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3868, 10 December 1883, Page 3

CLOSE OF THE WOOL SALES.

(Received December 10, 0.35 a.m.)

LONDON. December 7. At to-day's wool salo 11,200 bales wero offered. Prices continue firm. December 8. The colonial wool sales closed to-day with a hardening tendency in prices generally. During the series 150,000 bales have been sold, and 10,000 bales have been held over for the next sales. DELIVERY 01~~OOTOBEIf SUEZ MAILS IN LONDON. SALE OF AUSTRALIAN FROZEN MUTTON. THE TURKISH FRIGATES IN, THE RED SEA. THE NEAV SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. PARLEYING BETAVEEN FRANCE AND CHINA PROCEEDING. THE CROAVN PRINCE OF GERMANY TO VISIT THE POPE. FURTHER DESTRUCTION OF TROOPS BY EGYPTIAN REBELS. AMERICAN PETITION FOR RESPITE FOR O'DONNELL CAREY'S MURDERER. (Recoivod December 10, 11 a.m.) LONDON. December 8. The homeward mails viaSucz andßrindisi, dated Molbourno, October 25th, wero delivered yesterday.

A portion of tho cargo of mutton ex ! Lusitania was sold to-day at an average prico of l)\d per lb. The meat was in good condition. The British Government has agreed to the presences of Turkish frigates in the Red Sea, where they have been ordered to rendezvous by the Porte, to co-operate with the British war vessels now cruising off the eastern coast of Egypt. December 9. It has transpired that Mr Arthur AY. Peel, the Liberal member for AVarwick, and representative since 18G5 for that constituency in the House of Commons, has expressed his willingness to be nominated for the Speaker's chair, vacant by the resignation of Sir H. B. AY. Brand.