CABLE TELEGRAMS TO MARCH 26

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1456, 3 April 1873, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS TO MARCH 26

ARRIVAL OP THE WONGA WONG& AT AUCKLAND. [KEW ZEALAND PBESS ASSOCIATION;] ■'' ; .-;;!• rb-.j:; ; AE#KIiAXD, April 2. The Wonga Wonga has 1 arrived- from Sy(in ! ey : wM.3s:^eiigers; ! the 27th. ' , "' "" """;'':'""', „ <"' • ;! London, March 22. Money is' scairce ; stock market, slack ; telegraph shocks agitated. Victorian ; six ■ per cents, April >and October, 115| ; New South fWales ; fives, 107 ; New; Zealand consolidated, 104; New Zealand sixes,, 113 ; Bank of New South Wales shares, L4l ;. tallow qniet ; mutton, L4O to L 45 ; beef, L3O to L 42; peteolenm 16J j sperm, held; for L 96 j New Zealand 1 hemp stagnant ; cotton dull at a decline; Queensland cotton averages 9d. The copper market is excited, and prices are firmer. Present cash quotations—Wallaroo, L94to L 96. Tin, a ready salestraits, L 147. Wheat quiet. The Baltic is open. . ; .-.: : ;; :; ; 1 I Two hundred and sixty-two cargoes bi California wheat are on the way to_jfche United Kingdom. ' Its Value is 12s per cental. : r •"■'" ! * •'' ■■■■■■': London, iMarch 26. Unofficial correspondence from Khiva in relation, to the military expedition sent ; by Russia is. authoritatively forbidden. ; --A difficulty is apprehended in dealing '; with - Kirghiz, . whose territory . lies ..-be- ; tween Russian and [Turkestan. In o*der Ito secure, neutrality, Russia has ceded ; him Bagantchih; • . V: :I■. y ry,-.'-: ;■.' -I •> I According 1 to thelatest Russian accounts ■ the Khiyan^ attempted, without success,;- --: to incite Kirghiz to revolt and assumeia 'hostile attitude towards Russia;" Tfie I full equipment of the Khivan expedition jis completed." ; : : I Madbh>, March 25. ■ . Insubordination among the iroopß in iCatalonia is causing .considerable un^~ ! easiness. j The Cortes has agreed to the abolition i of slaveijr at Porto Rico. ; -