CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 2 October 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

«. ; (beutek's TELKGRAMS.) London. September 29. '■ Nearly £6l>,00() worth of Adelaide wines has beeu sold either in wholesale or retail quantities at the exhibition. Mr 6. C. Levey is drawing up a report on the colonial wines. The committee appointed by the Prince ! of Wales holds that the Executive ComI missioners are to blame for not explaining to Sir P. 0. Owen the exact requirements of colonial vignerons. The committee refuse to go behind the contract made by the executive of tbe Exhibition with Spi'-rs and Pond, and exculpate Sir Phillip from charges of neglect brought against him by the Times. Sir Reginald Hanson has been chosen Lord Mayor elect. The Standard states that the recent rise in wool has done much to reassure several Australian Banks to lend companies which were in serious danger. Some angry letters have been appearing in the Sportsman accusing Beach of funking a match with Hanlan. The constant insults and menaces to which he his been exposed intensify the chain* pion's objection to meeting tho Canadian oarsman on the Thames. It is probable the French Government will send a Zouave expedition to Madagascar. At the colonial wool auctions to-day 13,300 bales were offered. The tone of market is quiet. Adelaide flour is selling at 24s per 280lbs; New Zealtnd wheat— highest. 33s ; lowest, 28s ; Australian beef tallow. 23s 6d per cent ; mutton taliow, 25s 6d. Madeiba, September 29. The New Zealand Shipping Company's 8.8. Tongariro, which left Plymouth on the 25th ins tent, arrived here tbis morning, en route to Auckland.