CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1698, 4 February 1873, Page 3

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

j London, Jan. 23. I Dr Featherston haß shipped a large I quantity of salmon ova, per Oberon, for Otago. Sales of wool at Liverpool show a slight advance. Money is easier on the Continent. . Lord Lytton is dead. Mr Justice Byles has resigned. ,Mr Sargood, soft goods warehouseman, is dead. Spain is reinforcing her troops in Cuba. The Bonapartists are intriguing actively in France for an Imperial restoration. An active surveillance is kept over the Bonapartist propagandists in the French army. French affairs are quiet. The new wool clip to hand is inferior in quality. The Australian December mail was delivered on the twentieth. Sir James Fergusson was to have an interriew with Earl Kimberly next day. The Eussian and German Courts are in mourning for Napoleon. Supplies have reached Dr Livingstone, who has started on the exploration of the interior. There is a deficiency of 154,000,000 francs in the French indirect revenue. The Australian Colonies have been raised to an Admiral's command. The Pearl, corvette, 17 guns, will be the admiral's flagship. The Welsh colliery strike continues ; and, notwithstanding its magnitude, the action of the men is firmly sustained by the Unions. Baron Sehuvaloff was unsuccessful in his Russia-Asiatic mission, and has departed. The Queen's Government have notified the St. Petersburg Cabinet that an attack by Eussian arms upon Afghanistan will be regarded as a declaration of war against Great Britain. An uneasj feeling prevails. A fall has taken place in copper, "Wallaroo is at £94. At Glasgow pig iron is firm at 129 a. Block tin is active at £146. Best mutton tallow is at 43s 6d to 445. The New Zealand Trust and Loan Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. New Zealand hemp commands full rates. Sperm oil is at £95. Wheat is dull. Money is abundant. The Emperor of Germany will visit the Czar in April. The visit is said to have no political significance, The ship Northfleet, bound for Hobart Town, with 412 passengers, came into collision iv the Channel with a steamer. The Northfleet went down with 300 souls. A Texas preserved meat company has been launched, with a capital of £150,000. The Bangalore has arrived at Galle. The churches at Paris are crowded to hear mass for Napoleon. The Bank rate of discount is 4 per cent. Consols are at 92£. UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAMS. London, Jan 24. England's declaration to Russia is not likely to result in political complications. A Bonapartist reaction is going on in France. Later accounts regarding the sinking of the Northfleet, state that the number of lives lost was 225, inclusive of the captain. The passengers by her were principally navvies. Pig iron is at 132s to 1335, and copper is at £95. The Russian Press writes defiantly of the situation, but the official journals are guarded in their tone.