CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2648, 2 October 1882, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

ENGLISH &_EOEBIGN. Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright. [reuter's telegrams.] Received September 30th, 2.45 p.m. LONDON, September 30. A further quantity of the Matanra’s mutton was sold to-day at an average of 5d per lb. The sheep are pronounced by competent judges to be over fat. A portion of the cargo of mutton, ex steamship Garonne, from Melbourne, was sold to-day at an average of sfd per lb. Received October 2nd, 0.45 a.m. September 29. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,900,000 quarters, being a decrease of 50,000 quarters during the week. No change to report in money or produce markets. At the wool auction to-day, 11,200 bales were offered. A fair demand was experienced. September 30. The Bank of South Australia has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, for the past half year.

Government has issued a notification announcing the existence of smallpox epidemic at Capetown, and declaring the Cape to bo an infected district. Mr E. D. Gray, M.P. for Carlow, who was sentenced in August last to three months’ imprisonment, and to pay a fine for publishing in the “ Freeman’s Journal” certain articles reflecting upon the Judges and jurymen engaged in a recent agrarian murder trial, has boon released from custody. The Australian cricketers sailed for New York by the steamship Alaska to-day. "VIENNA, September 30. Serious anti-Jewish riots have occurred at Pressbnrg, a town in Hungary, about thirty-five miles east of this city, and containing 46,000 inhabitants, of whom 700 are Jaws. The omente lasted a considerable time, the mob defying the authorities. Martial law was proclaimed, and is still enforced in the district. P” A tons ” Special, per United Press Association ] Received September 30th, 5.7 p.m. A yonng man named Bechag, the son of a Sydney medical man, was one of the passengers by the Potosi, but on arriving at Plymouth he was found to have been attacked by small-pox, and was accordingly taken ashore to the hospital there. The steamer was then admitted to pratique. Henry Edmnnd Knight, alderman for Oripplegate Ward, is the Lord Mayor elect of London. He was sheriff in 1876.