REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1130, 13 May 1880, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 10. Adelaide wheat, 50s ; Adelaide flour, 37s 6d.

Leather is steady at llfdper lb. At the wool sale to-day 12,100 bales were offered, making a total of 184,000 catalogued since the opening. The tone of the market Was firmer. There was a fair demand for locks and pieces. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has written a letter to Count Karalzi, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, expressing deep regret for the censure passed upon the foreign policy of Austria, which was uttered in default of the assurance how received that Austria has no desire to extend her rule to the Balkans.

May 11. Homeward mails, via San Francisco, were delivered in London to-day. Three per cent. Consols 99|-. Adelaide wheat, per 4961bs* 535, exship, warehouse 595. At the wool sale to-day, 10,200 bales were offered, making a total of 195,100 bales catalogued since the opening.

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

Melbourne, May 11. Parliament was opened to-day by Royal Commission. Sir Charles M'iVlahou was elected Speaker by 44 to 39 votes. The new members were sworn in.

There is a great scarcity of coal in Melbourne, amounting to almost a famine, owing to the strike of the Newastle miners.

Sydney, May 12. A prospectus has been published today, of a company to be formed for the the purpose of working Poverty Bav shale.

In the Legislative Assembly, last night, a resolution adverse lo granting land for church sites was canned against the Government.

King George's Sound, May 12. Arrived—P. and O. Company’s steamship Tanjore, from Galle, with the inward Suez mail.