SPECIAL CABLEGRAM.
[from ocn ow.v coutif-si-ondknt.] London", July 5.
A Royal Commission lias been appointed to inquire into the causes of the agricultural depression. July G.
O-.vinc,' to tlic wheat crop having suffered considerably, it is estimated that France will have to purchase fifty millions ot kilogrammes of foreign wheat. July 7. Tiie prospects of the barley harvest are bad. Tiie tin market is heavy and unsettled, with receding quotations. The present price is LG4 12s Ud. The corn market is firm and steady. Wheat has advanced from Is to Is Gd per quarter. Home deliveries are small, and the ruling rate is 49s per quarter. Flour is quoted at 33s per 2801b. July 8. Prayers have been offered up for line weather. The Court of Inquiry has censured Captain Carey for his cowardly conduct on tiie occasion of the death of the Prince Imperial. Lord Chelmsford'.-; army is advancing. Flogging in tiie :umy has been virtually , abolished. i Angry scenes have occurred in the | House of Commons. The Radical party I have repudiated Lord Huntington's leaderiship. The Countess of Waldegrave is dead. Consols, OS|. Leather, Ojid. Sydney, July IG. There was a severe constitutional conflict between the two Houses of Parlia- ! incut. The arbitrators hr.ve awarded the Torres i Straits Mail Company L2OOO salvage for saving th'. v Ocean. There is a great increase in shipping. Sydney cannot supply coal. ' The" opening of the Sydney International Exhibition has been fixed for the l*t Uctober. July 17. Sir Henry Parkes, in a three-hour constitutional speech, urged that the Assembly must obliterate oligarchy, and that its upholders were virtually conspirators against the constitution. Mr. Fitxratrick replied, and largely nullified the <» fleet of the Premier's speech. Mr. Docker's motion for addressing the Secretary of State on the subject was adj i Timed. Ti'.e new tens are splendid. The bidding at auction was unaniniated, and the principal portion was withdrawn as prices were too low.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 10011, 17 July 1879, Page 2
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