LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3852, 29 June 1875, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

(Per Albion at Hokitika.) _ London, June 17. Robert Benson and Co., of King’s Arms Yard, and Rainbow, Holleston and Co., St. Helen’s Place, Bishopsgate street, have suspended payment. __ _ , . , June 18. Messrs Borthwick and Co., bill brokers; John Strachan and Co., Bishopsgate street • J. C. Fairlie, Leadenhall street; John Anderson and Co., Philpot Lane; and J. p. Westhcad and Co., Manchester, have suspended payment. Other minor failures are reported. June 19. The wool sales, after a course of remarkable steadiness, closed slightly weaker. 271,272 bales were catalogued and 130,C00 were taken for export. An advance was established on March lates as follows :—Superior fleece, IJd to 2d; ordinary, Id; scoured, Id to Ijd ; greasy, $d to Id; half-bred greasy, Id to Coarse wools attracted a special demand, and lambs’ commanded extreme rates. The Bank reserve is strong, and money is in less demand, but firm. The stock market is recovering. During the debate in the House oi Commons on English influence at Constantinople, several members spoke gloomily of the condition of Turkey.

• Paris, June 19. The Assembly has voted the Univeisity Education > Bill, which substantially confers upon religious faculties the power to confer degrees, hitherto a monopoly of the State.