TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 22 June 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[ ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. COMMERCIAL ITEMS. CRICKET- AUSTRALIANS V DUBLIN UNIVERSITY TEAM. LOCAL OPTION AND LICENSING. THE DEMANDS OF GREECE. London, June 17. Consols have further risen one-quarter and are to-day quoted at 9S£ (ex div). New Zealand secuiifies are unchanged. The markets for Australian and New Zealand bre.idst..ffs are quiet and without change in price.

Jane 18. The total quantity of wheat float fur Great Britain is 155,000 quarters. Three per cent cons"B 935. j Adelaide wheat, per 4D3lbs, ex ware- l house, 50s Adelaide Hour, per 2801hs, ex | w linrehonse, 37a. Be st Australian heef tal’nw, 325. Tlio mate 1, b< tween the Australians and Dublin University team at Dublin was continued to-day. The attendance of the I üblie Has large, ami the weather was very tine throughout the day. The Horae team in their first innings were all disposed of for 93' runs. The AuAraliaus then went in for their second innings, and when the stumps were drawn had lost six w'ckets for 132 runs. Banncrn an was caught out for 09 runs. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Wilfred T.awsen in’rodneed a series of reso ntions on local option and licensing. The Right Hon. ,Mr Gladstone, the Premier, slro gly oppo-cd the same, but the House agreed to the resolutions. Athens, June 18. The Greek Government; has sent a circn’ar note to tte Great Powers setting firth a claim for territory between Jaitina and Prevesa in the South of Albania, and for an extensive district in the Province of Thessaly. The demands of the Go vernm-nt, will, it is announced, be referred to the Special Commission to be despatched by Big Berlin Conference to settle the Turko Greek frontier question on thy spot.