LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1722, 10 February 1874, Page 2

LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

— — ♦■ ARRIVAL OF S.S. MIKADO. | ANGLO- AUSTRALIAN" PRESS TELEGRAPH AGENCY.] : Port Chalmers, Feb. 9. The s.s. Mikado arrived at Port Chalmers at 9 p.m. last night. She made the run in four days twenty-three hours, and was detained seven hours in a fog on the coast. London, Jan. 31. The stock markets are dull, and the wool sales have been postponed until the 17th February in consequence, of the elections. The price of wheat is dropping, owing to large expected arrivals. America has shipped half a million quarters during the past three weeks. Adelaide wheat is depressed, with few transactions. The present cash quotations for Australian copper are L9l to L 92. The tin market is heavy and unsettled. Straits tin is now quoted at Llls ; Australian at Lll3. Flax is lower. There has been a sale of Adelaide wheat at 6s ; large quantities are offering at Cs Id, without buyers. Flour, Ll3 15s to Ll4 7s 6d. February 1. General Wolsely and the British forces under his command reached . the river Prah on the Ist January. About an hour after his arrival he was met by ambassadors from the King of Ashantee, bearing letters asking for peace. Sir Garnet Wolsely said he would only treat with the King himself at Coomassie, whereupon the ambassadors returned. The Fifth (Naval) Brigade crossed the Prah on the sth of last month. January 31. The conservative candidates are opposing the re-election of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone for Greenwich. The polling for the elections will be general this week;' .The: former imembera for Birmingham,' the : '

Right Hon. John Bright, B. H. Muntz, and George Dixon have been re-elected unopposed. The Dutch forces have captured Kratow. February 1. Up to Saturday last 48 members have been elected, of these 20 are liberals, and 28 are conservative. Eight liberals have been ousted by conservative candidates. General Gablentz has committed suicide. ■ . . ; ,■ . . Spain. The Carlists continue the blockade of Bilboa. ;