ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. OMEO AT THE BLUFF.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4550, 20 October 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. OMEO AT THE BLUFF.

[A portion of the following was issued as a second edition yesterday.] Bluff, Tuesday.

TheOmeoafrived at the Bluff at 7.30 a.m; she left on the 13th at 2.30 p.m., and brings 4 saloon and 52 steerage passengers ; 290 tons of cargo, 600 sheep, and 89 horses for all ports. She sails at 4 p.m. for Dunedin. SPECIAL NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAM. [The following telegram la published by us under the authority of the Press Agency, the same being its special property ; and legal proceedings will bo taken against any person publishing the same without such authority.] London, October 11. The steamer Edinburgh sailed with the shore ends of the New Zealand cable. The deep sea portion leaves early in November. New Zealand wheat, 51s. to 545. (beoter’s cable telegrams.) London, October 5. Wade, the British Minister at China, has notified to the foreign. legations at Pekin that negotiations have been entered into which have averted immediate war. The Servian Ministry has resigned, and the Foreign Consuls have been instructed to remain at Mostar. In the meanwhile the Sultan has suppressed the fourth part of the titles, and promised fiscal reform. Carlists are bombarding Pampeluna and San Sebastian.

Samuel Wilson, of Victoria, and Captain McMahon, the Speaker of the Assembly, have been knighted. The silk season has been a failure in Japan, and the increased planting of mulberry trees in Australia is recommended.

Wool sales closed, good wool maintaining the advances; inferior unchanged. 125,000 bales taken for the Continent. Next sales, November 23. Probable arrivals, 90,000 bales. Australian tallow sold at 495. to 50s. Arrived.— H.M.S. Rosario. October 8. At the municipal banquet given at Liverpool, Lord Derby deprecated unwise intermeddling as much as excessive indifference in Continental affairs. England’s great interest was the maintenance of peace. The importance of the Herzegovina insurrection has been exaggerated, and the autonomy of the provinces would be impracticable, owing to difference of religion.

Concerning China no decisive intelligence has yet been received, but Wade was hopeful of a satisfactory settlement, as the demands of Great Britain were both moderate and just, and he intended adhering to them. October 9. Money tightening. There have been large withdrawals of gold for Germany. Bank reserve weaker ; Bank rate, 24. The default in paying interest on the Turkish loan produced great excitement on the Stock Exchange. There has been a heavy fall in Egyptian and Peruvian bonds. The corn market advanced from Is. to Is. fid. a quarter ; Adelaide quoted at 535. to 50s.

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