CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1312, 21 June 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS,

telegram, pbr press association) Correction. —Midnight cable message of Friday should read—"The Home team, then went in for thpir first innings, and have lost one wicket for seven runs ipsteacL of " one wicket for 76 runs." TjONDON, June 18. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,550,000 quarters. Three per cent, consols, 98g>.V : Adelaide wheat, 50s per 496 lbs, ex warehouse; Adelaide flour, 37s per 280 lbs, ex warehouse.

Best Australian beef tallow, 325. The match between the Australians and the Dublin University team was continued to-day. Tlib attendance of the public was large, and the weather was very fipe throughout the day. The Home team in their first innings were all disposed of for 98 runs. )he Australians then went in for their second innings, and when the stumps were drawn had lost six wickets for J§2 runs. 1 Bannerman was caught for 69 rnns.

In the House of Commons torday, Sir Wilfred Lawson introduced a series of resolutions on local option and licensing. The Right Hon, Mr. Gladstone strongly opposed the same, but the House agreed to the resolutions. __ The Wangapui .Harbor improvement loan of LGO,OOO, at 6 per cent., was announced to-day. June 19. Consols have again risen, and are now quoted at 98J. Adelaide wheat is declining, and is now at .49s pd per 496 lbs, ex warehouse. The cricket match, Australians v. 18 Dublin University, was' concluded to-day, when the Australians continued their second innings, which closed for 156 runs. The Dublin team then went in, and when stumps were drawn they had lost seven wickets for 86 runs. The match was therefore drawn, but was in favor of the Australians. The weather was showery, and play was frequently interrupted by rain. -

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(BJEUTEJt'S FEKPRESS ASS DOTATION.) Melbourne, June 21. The division on the Keform Bill, which takes place next Thursday, is expected to be very close, but it ig thought yery improbable that the- Government will be found to possess a statutory majority in favor of the measure. Cooktown, June 21. Ifews has been received that the steamer Corea pan ashore on Claremont Island, but got off the same night, and was beached. She has sustained a great amount of damage. The missionary s.ch.ooner Ellangowan has arrived nerej and brings §ve of the Chandernagore party from 3Xew Ireland. They state that the vessel left Antwerp secretely, and used flags of all nationalities occasionally on the voyage. Sixty men were confined below on the penalty of being ghot. They arrived at Lacghlan Island on the 10th January, and fifty days afterwards their provisions were exhausted, and they bartered their clothes for food with the natives of the Woodlark Island.. The men repeat the accounts "previously received of the deplorable sufferings endured by the party. The relief schooner Wily, which was despatched from Sydney with spores transhipped from the Chandernagore, fiajfed at New Ireland on Ist of May, but only stayed two hours, and landing nothing but a bag of biscuits and a few pounds of pork and one pound of tobacco. The njgn further denounce the perfidy of "the colonising scheme, and say that the whole affair is a jfrau.4-.

SyoNEf, June 21,

. ITews eojpe§ tp hatjd from New (guinea that the natives west of tlje island had attacked a number of villages on the .coast, and had killed and eaten sixty women whom they had captured.