SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

Southland Times, Issue 1265, 14 June 1870, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

London, May 13. The wool sales closed heavily at February prices. Two-thirds have been taken for the Continent. The Liverpool sale of Australian meat was considered satisfactory. Mr Gladstone defended Earl Granville's policy. Messrs Morpeth and Kingston have been knighted. The scheme for the reconstruction of the Albert Assurance Company has been approved by the policyholders. The British and Australian cable, to be laid from India to Singapore, will be • shipped in August. Emigration westward is assuming vaster proportions. Australian- debentures are steady. Consols, 94. An influential memorial has been presented to the Postmaster- General in favor of the Brindisi mail route. . { The Wonga Wonga's mail reached San Francisco on the 7th inst. The Australian March letters via Brindisi were delivered this morning. Arrivals. — City pf Vienna, Nourmahal, Lincolnshire, Colonial Empire, Ernestine, Jerusalem, Wave of Life, Maid of Judah, Anglesey, Middlesex, Empress, William Duthie, Nimrod, Lansdowne, Napoleon 111., Hawarden Castle, Duke -of Edin- ' burgh, Confidence, Kate Kellock, Brock, ham, Essex, Janet Court, Agamemnon, Sarah Grice, German, Queen of Nations, Eesolute, Western Empire, Alchymist, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Yatala, La Hogue.