CABLE NEWS.
~BEUT_Bs' TELEGRAMS.! London, September 16. The race for the St. Leger Stakes took place at Doncaster to day, and resulted as follows : — Lord Hastings Milton, 1 ; Lord Bradford's Isoder, 2 ; Lord CaJogan'sLontly.3. At to-day's wool sales, 10.900 bales were catalogue!, the market evincing a steadier tendency. ■ Mr Charles Todd, CMC, Postmaster General and Superintendent ef Telegraphs of South Australia, states that the cable rates te Adelaide will be 8» 8d for Government and public messages, dependent upon the Indian Government conced'ng 2£d per word, and Press rates 2s 8d per word. Tbe public are dissatisfied with tbe telegraph tariff, and in oonsequence of the unsatisfactory reduction made by South Australia pn the overland route, there is some talk of another line being constructed. The trans-ocean race between representative yachts of America and England was won by America.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 43, 19 September 1885, Page 2
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139CABLE NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 43, 19 September 1885, Page 2
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