ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 280, 26 November 1874, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Lokdok, Not. 17. The London wool sales opened on the 17th. The total arrivals amount to more than £0,000 bales. Upwards of 5500 bales hare been offered, and the Cape of Good Hope wools preponderated. Home buyers were more numerous than those from foreign countries, and the biddings commenced with great spirit. Prices ranged about the came as last series. The steamer Great Britain has arrived at Holyhead. November 19. Mr Disraeli has written to Sir Henry Creswick Bawlinson (who has been for many years an eminent distinguished member of the Royal Geographical Society) announcing that a new expedition fir scientific purpose* is to be despatched to the Polar regions. The project is supported on the ground that it is important to encourage the spirit of maritime enterprise among English people. Mr Alexander M'Ewan, the speculator on Stock Exchange, has foiled, with liabilities amounting to £400,000. Wheat is firmer. Australian is worth from 49s to 54s per quarter. A new Anglo-Australian Steamship Company is announced with a capital of half a nrfUion rterllng. Tito Times speaks of the undertaking in term* «f discouragement.

The mails from Sydney via San Francisco were delivered on the 18th. Mr "William Cleaver Robinfon succeeds Governor Weld as Governor of Western Australia. The colonial wool sales have opened at London. The competifon was well maintained throughout. The following is a telfgratu from the New Zealand |Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, dated London, November 18:— '* The woo' sales opened at the level of last Bales, and comprise about 88,000 bales. 8000 bal s have been sent to the manufacturing districts direct. For Cape of Good Hope scoured, the m rket is easier."