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London, December 18. An unpublished cablegram of the above date says that yesterday's Continental advices report Bueno3 Ayres and Cape wools as being depressed about 1 5 per cent. Wool sales at Havre and Antwerp flat. There is fear of a financial crisis in Germany through over speculation. December 14. .The declaration of Lady Doughty has had the effect of moving the friends of- the Tichhourne claimant to action. A monster demonstration was held last night in St" James's Hall, when Mr Whalley, the member for Peterborough, and Mr Qnslow, MP. for Guildford, and other prominent men spoke. The claimant, who appeared on tlie platform was loudly cheered by a densely packed ' audience. He spoke for nearly an hour, and resolutions were unanimously adopted denouncing the proceedings of the Government againgt the claimant as unconstitutional. The feeling evoked in London has taken the press by surprise, and it declares it to be a class demonstration. French affairs aTe quiet. . Thiers is unwell. Leather is rising. Tin plates a shilling dearer. The Government at Berlin proposes to convert twenty.millions, now lying in the military treasury, into twenty and forty, mark pieces* This sum represents the total reserve of the Bank of England. All the shares in the National Bank of New Zealand are subscribed for. December 18. An insurrection at Madrid ended in a conflict with the troops, in which several people were killed. Eventually it was suppressed. \. The Spanish Loan is floated. Von Boon, the war Minister at Berlin, has resigned. , Bismarck wishes to resign the Chancellorship. The November exports from Great Britain/ amount to 22£ millions. / The cargo and passengers by the Agamemnon/ for Lyttelton have been transferred. 1 Flax, £S8 to £40. '. y |, Disraeli's wife is dead. ■•■ Consols; 91f. ,'". , 7 The lfrench Assembly refuses to dissolve.. 7 Eminent Counsel' has been retained for fhs Tichboume claimant. :■-..//. * , yTheFronch funds are, easier. :/ v.The, Suez; mwl news per. Bangalore arrived oi :tm^th^^^Zyd^y ; AA(y-yA/dd .Ay. ■ i T • •jp-arafls^liave pii^whe^ a -full iSfc^S^w^t-he Queen's attendant^ MMUNHHBHVh is failing^^^ v : |MBBH^Weoch ABBembly is regarded as

more pliable thari; any Theirs is likely to get for /the futurey - y 7 ".;, ,. r _. 7 The ;■ rise in *w-obl: ;at tha December -sales .averaged IJd to S^d-pbr'-lb. Large transhipments of Cape T^ool' have been made from America/to the London markets. '" ,>i. - : Admiral Randolph has been appointed fjlagy officer of the Australian station. yJ-M^Z-',., Tenders for the mail service betweeli ;:t()o!"^a^^ i and Sydney via San Francisco imply ttisdeaii-a»| bility of the mail steamers calling at Fiji^llii|7'7y Tallerman has floated a large Meat Company?'' The high prices of Australian meats are limiting the sales. Seven pence to .eightpence is now asked. - , \ Heavy floods in Lancashire have carried off hundreds of sheep and cattle, : . The Egyptian Government is reported to have /designs on Abysinnia. A German fleet of five ships is about to visit Australia; * ' ' Ov" Marshal Bazaine is in a critical state of health - but it is expected that he "will survive bis ;trial. .Three hundred Prussian women have claimed admission to the meaical schools as student's. Ay. Ellen Kittard, charged 'with poisoning a woman in order to marry her husband, has been acquitted. An Episcopalian curate and an agricultural laborer at Banbury have been charged with pugilism. A Roman Catholic priest has heen indicted for smuggling cigars and tobacco. \ , v I Tbe exact amount received by*. Germany from France to November 1, is two hundred million francs. Some London merchants have subscribed £2000 to bring up the poor' in the principles of Established Church. The neutralisation" of the Suez canal is seriously proposed- » y Two British seaman have swam across .the Dardanelles from Aby dos t«v Jestos. By the dealh of Gurney's divorced ( wife half a million sterling goes to the creditors,of CLverend and Gurney. , V The Oriental Bank Corporation loses £43,000 by the failure of Gladstone & Co. Dr Livingstone writes to his daughter that he \ will return home speedily. Two thousand mill girls at Paisley gave Stanley an enthusiastic demonstration. The .National Bank of. Ireland holds over a million, sterling Of -gold. 7<- . Ample funds are forthcoming for the defence of the Tichbourbe claimant. Messrs Brogden promise -their emigrants, when their work as navvies is completed, farms oh easy terms. There is a large emigration of farm laborers to , New Zealand. y The Ruahine, formerly of the Panama line, has been altered to a single "scjew - , and named the Xiffey. ' * Arrived from New Zealand: Mendoza. Sailed: Calastceno, Crusader, Lock Ness, Ferndale, and Marpesia. ' Spoken : Agnes Muir for Auckland. For continuation qf news see fourth p >ye.

MpNEY r MAkIN» Made Easy.~A correspondent; of the Australasian Bays :— In squattiiig circles there is an' 'old gentle-, man' who has this eotk-like Equality of notf staying under for long.' I .remember hii telling me one day at .lunch many years ago that' he would shear., that seasoij . 120,000 sheep. But too much scab, ana too little water, and, perhaps, something* else, brought him to deplorable grief. He seemed stranded high and dry, and not likely to get afloat again. Bat his energy remained. With a few pounds in his pocket he lately started for Sydney by the P. and -0. boat. , On board he met a former Queensland -squatter, with whom he, soon foregathered. Chatting very cosily over a tumbler of hot whiskey punch, the Queenslander disclosed that the object of his voyage: from England, new nearly accomplished, was the sale bf >a pastoral property in the youngest of the\ colenies ; there were so many thousand acres freehold, so many cattle, and so -many sheep. My old friend metaphorically pricked up his ears. " What price," inquired he, " are you asking ?" " Well," said the Queenslander, " I don't mean to accept less than £22,000 ; of this I only want £5,000 cash, and the balance I won't object to leading as an incumbrance on the property." His companion took a long sip from his goblet, blinked knowingly — and then startled the new arrival by say- . ing quietly, " I'll take that property." Now, at the moment all the cash he could command was much nearer £50 than .-£5,000, but on arrival at Sydney he inter- . viewed a friendly banker, arranged for the requisite cash, and is once more on the high road to fortune. It is said that he could realise £10,000 profit on bis sudden- I ly closed bargain. • j