CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 152, 5 June 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE LONDON MARKETS.

THE MAILS.

THE LONDON WOOL SALES.

ROWING MATCH.

THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE

AND NEW GUINEA:

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT. ) (SPECIAL TO UKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) -' London, June 2. At to-day's wool sale 10,00 bales were catalogued. An active demand was experienced for all descriptions. Consols, 101£, ex div. ; JNewr Zealand securities, 5 per cent. 1 0-40 loan, 106 ; 5 per cent, 1889 loan, 105; 4j per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 102 ; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, IG2; The bieadstuffs market is dull. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 48s j New Zealand, ditto, 44s to 475. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 33s 6d, The total quantity of wheat afloat. has. risen to 2^250 jO()6 : quarters; Australia tallow is dull at 41s for best beef, and 42s 6d for best mutton. The Homeward mails, per Qrieiit. steam ship- Pbtosij : from- Melbourne (April 25) were delivered ria Naples to-day. Increased animation is apparent m the wool sales, and good stapled samples are keenly competed: fdri "Snort and faulty sorts continue still .depressed.' 109.000 bales have been catalogued and lSrOoS^withdrawn. Hanlan defeated Kennedy m the rowing match by fifteen lengths. Lord Derby, replying to a deputation from the Council of the Colonial ; Insti ( ute, which urged the annexation of New Guinea, stated that until the I receipt of Sir Arthur Kennedy's despatches on the ' subject, no decision would be come to. The Government was anxiously awaiting these, and would weigh well the wishes of Australia. He understood the colonists would be content if foreign Powers we/c prevented settling the coasts nearest to Australia. . . '. ".