REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 920, 11 September 1879, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PH ESS ASSOCIATION.] LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. London, Sept. 8. Tlie total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain amounts to 1,800,000 quarters. At the wool sales to-day, G3OO bales were catalogued. Tlie tone of the market is (inner. Tiie lliirbeiz Vincent, bound from London to Adelaide, lias put back having taken tire. The tire has been' extinguished. Sir St ijford Nortlicoto, in a s'pcfecli supporting the candidature of it is son for Exeter, insisted upon the maintenance of unity between E gland a id tlie Colonies. lie deeply deplored the massacre at (Jabu ! , and sailed that Major G'vagnarl died nobly at bis post, iii.s death was a. scrioa i 10.-s< to the nation. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, Sept. 9. A heavy gale has been blowing today on the coast. The schooners Bertha and Frans were wrecked. Heavy rains have fallen throughout the Colony. A great find of gold, it is rumored, has been discovered near ' Wellington, New South Wales. Sept: 10. Heavy rains continue. Serious floods are reported from Windsor and other towns. Settlers have been compelled to leave their houses. Fears are entertained of heavy locs of stock. Ehiseane, Sept. S. The Governor leaves for Sydney on Friday to visit tho Exhibition. llob.viiT Town, August 9. ■Parliament has boon opened by the Governor, who, in his speech on the occasion, stated he hoped that the session would be short. He urged the extension of public works, and an increase of taxation, if necessary.