The Ascot Cup.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 930, 18 June 1877, Page 2

The Ascot Cup.

Bombay, June 15. Ascot Cup Petrarch, 1 ; Skylark 2; Coomassie, 3. Affairs in France. The Republican party in the Chamber has resolved not to vote the Budget. Wool Advanced. Money Easy. Wheat Lower. London, June 16,4.35 p.m. Money is cheaper. The Bank minimum is unchanged. The reserve is £13,000,000. Consols, 941. Colonial securities are firm. Wool is in keen demand, and prices are higher. Sales close on the 26th. Wheat is dropping. Adelaide, 63s to 65s ; New Zealand, 56s to 60s. Shipping. The ship Cairo is posted at Lloyd’s a s missing. INTERPROVINCIAL. [bee press agency.] Terrific Storm on the West Coast. Hokitika, June 18. We have had a terrific gale and a heavy thunderstorm, lasting twenty-four hours. Considerable damage has been done to houses by the wind. Communication between here and Greymouth is stopped by the" flood?. The Owake is reported ashore||along the coast. G-reymoutii, June 18. The schooner May Ogilvie arrived in the roadstead on Friday afternoon, but was beached about a mile south of the Q-rey River yesterday, after struggling for thirty hours against a terrific N.W. gale. No lives were lost. Her cargo is likely to be got out without much damage." The schooner Owake, which was in company with her on Saturday afternoon, it is heard, has also been driven ashore towards Hokitika. Dunedin, June 18. Councillors Woodland, Isaac, and R. 11. Leary intend contesting the Mayoral election this year.