TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 173, 3 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Aug. 28. ; For the November sales, to-day, 7200 bales were catalogued. The markets have a downward tendency. There was a fair attendance. Prices averaged Id per lb. lower for inferior and scoured. A loan of £IOO,OOO for Western Aus- > tralia has been placed. The allotment price averaged 97£.

August 29. Sir Rowland Hill has been buried, in Westminster Abbey. . j; ' The latest Cape news states that Clark’s column accompanied'.Sir Garnet Wolseley to Ulundi on the 12th. Russell’s column has reached Euhlongana, fortified. Everything was quiet, The' Zulus having dispersed to their homes. Negotiations continue with,the prirfeprd chiefs, who promise submission. Cetewayo is in the vicinity of Euglongana.

August 30. The New South Wales Mortgage, Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has been floated, with a capita! of £1,000,000. The first issue of shares to the extent of half a million was subscribed for. ”>y Messrs Helmuth, Schwartze and Co. report that better classes of wool-have lost the advance they gained on the close of the June series. For inferior and fault} 7 , the cat dogues show the present rates to be lower by 15 per cent, than at any time this year The rougher crossbreds and New Zealand washed fleeces are specially depressed. Lord Chelmsford visits Balmoral Castle on Monday to receive the Grand Cross of the Bath. . The English cricketing team, comprising Daft (captain), Uilyett, Lockwood, Finder, Emmett, Selby, Skewsbury, and others, have sailed for Quebec, to play a series of matches in Canada and., the United States. Sala goes to Sydney to represent the c Daily Telegraph’ at the Exhibition. _A party of eight English farmers, each with a capital of £SOO, have started for. Texas. A Royal Commission has been appointed to report on the question of colonial defence. Lord Carnarvon is president, and Barkley, Childers, Holland, Brassey, Loutorn, Simmons, Alexander and Milne are members. Adelaide wheat is quoted at 47s 6d per 961hs, ex warehouse. The homeward mails, via San Francisco, were delivered to-day, At the wool sales to-day 12,003 bales were catalogued. Business was dull and irregular. An extensive and unusually rich goldfield has been discovered near Axio, on the African Gold Coast. Rouleaux, the special correspondent for the leading German and Austria-: papers at the Melbourne Exhibition, visits New Zealand in two months’ time. It it his intention to write a book on his colonial travels. Vienna, Aug. 29. Count Andrnssy’has recommended the Emperor to appoint the present AustroHungarian Ambassodor to the King of Italy as his successor in the Foreign Office. Austrian troops will occupy the town of Nova Bazar, on the southern frontier of Servia, on the Bth September, in accordance with the terms of the Berlin convention. Quebec, August 29. The Council has rejected the Supply Bill, and demanded that the LieutenantGovernor should change his advisers. New York, Aug. 28. The Cuban insurrection hos entirely suppressed. Only a feu'smafi bands of insurgents are at large, and these the troops are pursuing.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, August 30. A sculHug race has been arranged for £2OO asid • bet vee;» Rn-di an- 1 T,av.',-w»V