CABLEGRAMS.
LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (reuter's telegram, per press association) London, May 14. The cricket match between the Australian team and eighteen gentlemen of Hampshire was resumed and concluded to-day. The Englishmen scored 116 in their first innings and then followed on, making a score of 113 in their second innings. The Australians thus .won the match in one innings, with 21 runs to spare. Three per cent, consols, 99 J. New Zealand wheat, per 496 lbs, 43s to 455, ex ship. Best Australian beef tallow, 335; best mutton tallow, 355. At the wool sales to-day 9900 bales were offered, making a total of 225,500 bales catalogued since the opening. The tone of the market was quiet for merino fleece, and merino lambs unchanged ; but crossbreds are 2£d to 3d lower compared with previous sales. There will be no further sales till "Wednesday, 19th, owing to the Witsuntide holidays. The wool sales close on Jxme S. - May 15. The Orient steamship Liguria sailed from Plymouth to-day.
The statement made that the Chief Secretary for Ireland recommends a policy of coercion, towards Ireland is denied.
DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (reuter : s telegram per press association. Melbourne, May 15. The Hon. Neil Black is dead.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1282, 17 May 1880, Page 2
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