CABLEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1053, 4 September 1879, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (reutek's telegram, per press association .) St. Petersburgh, September 2. The Czar has arranged to meet the Emperor of Germany at Konighben. Rome, September 2. The deficiency in the Italian crops is estimated at 50 per cent. London, September 1. Three per cent. Consols, 95£. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Gritain is 1,750,000 quarters. - At the wool sales to-day, 9500 bales were catalogued. The market is quiet. DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (special to press association.) Sydney, September 3. Arrived —Ben Ledi, steamer, from Hong Kong. Sailed —Hero, for Auckland. Adelaide, September 3. Wheat is at from 5s 3d per bushel. Brisbane, September 3. The Legislative Assembly has passed the Loan Bill for public works. The Opposition have resumed obstructiveness on another measure. Melbourne, September 4. The Assembly counted out after ten o'clock this morning. No business was done, the Opposition refusing to allow the tariff to be rushed through without public debate. (recter's telegram, fur press association) Melbourne, September 4. The result of the official enquiry as to the cause of the collision of the steamer Claude Hamilton with a barque in Hobson's Bay, is that the certificate of the captain of the Claude Hamilton has been suspended for three months. In the Legislative Assembly last night, the whole of the items of the tariff, as recently amended, were carried by a large majority.