CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1770, 22 July 1873, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika., July 18. The Claud Hamilton arrived yesterday. She left Melbourne on the 11th inst. London, July 8. Cholera prevails in Paris, Berlin, and other Continental cities. The Sheffield engineers have struck. The salaries in the Euglish and Irish Civil Service have been equalised. The new Judicature Bill covera ecclesiastical cases. A portion of the Geneva award has been paid. The Shah of Persia left for France escorted by an Anglo-French squadron to Cherbourg. Negotiations are proceeding between England and Frauce for a treaty of commerce. The High Court of Appeal, under the new Judicature Bill, extends to Ireland and Scotland. A strike among the Scotch miners is threatened. The Bank forgers have been committed j for trial. j The Queen has conferred the order of the Garter upon the Shah of Persia. Prince Bismarck has retired to his estate. It is believed he has left the Prussian Cabinet on account of a difference between Yon Koon and himself on the course taken by the Keichstadt in insisting upon an adjournment before voting the Military Bill. A committee has been appointed to consider M. Thiers's Constitutional Bills. The Khan of Khiva, in submitting to . the Russian General, begged for mercy. |

Holland has denied officially that the Dutch will settle the Acheen difficulty peaceably. Discount, (5 per cent. Money is easier, :md stocks are dull. Tallow has slightly declined. Meats are active. Australian wheat is unchanged, but American is lower ; the arrivals have been moderate. Otis are dull. Pig iron, H9i. Copper, j £9L 10s to £133. New Zealand Consolidated fives, 104 f ; Victorian fives, 105 ; New South Wales fives, 104J ; Queensland sixes, lOS^-. The ironmasters of Wolverhampton have reduced the price of finished iron. Cholera is spreading in New York. . Power, the sculptor, is dead. The inter ational exhibition of 1876 will be held at Philadelphia. The steamer City of Washington has been wrecked. All hands were saved.