ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.
London, Nov. 18. The new series of colonial wool auctions was opened to-day. The quantity catalogued was 73,000 bales. The tone of tlie sales was very active. Australian merinos showed ten per cent, advance. The sales close on the .9th of December. The Sultan lias appointed Baker Pasha to supervise reforms in Asia The Austria* squadron in Piraeus proceeds to Salos ica, and ultimately it i believed, to Bessika. At Sergeant Simond’s meeting at Danbury, the gallery fed with three hundred people. Three were killed and forty injured. The total number of bales available for the present series of wool sales is 127,360. Seven thousand nine hundred have been despatched to Yorkshire and the Continent. Cape wools preponderate. The attendance was exceptionally large at tta opening, and competition extremely vigorous. Prices show an average advance of about two peace per pound, the rise being chiefly in cross-breds. Rome, Nov. 18. The Ministry has resigned. Constantinople, Nov. 18. Baker Pasha has been appointed to inaugurate reforms throughout Asia.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 202, 22 November 1879, Page 2
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170ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. Temuka Leader, Issue 202, 22 November 1879, Page 2
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