TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 19 February 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN., ■ Loiidon, Feb. 15. ~ Tbe February-March series of wool , sales opened to-day. Prices .generally show a decline of 7$ per cent, compared with' closing rates of last auction . The-market rate of discount has been reduced to 3 per cent. The Bank rate remains at per cent. •' / . Best Australian- leather is y The opening;-catalogue at I the wool sale.to-day ’comprised.; 2100 ba,les. There was a good attendance of Home and foreign buyers .- The demand waV fair but prices were, ’as compared with/ closing fully penny lower* Tor scoufeT wools, in* total arrivals for auctions amount to. 310,000 bales, and. the probablequantity to be offered i§ SOQjOoo. Feb. - TO."' Stevens, tbe former ~ Fenian. Head Centre,. is now at Faria..

In the House of Commons last night, the Home Secretary, Sir 'William . Vernon Harcourt, in reply to a question I made a statement, in the course of which he virtually admitted that letters sus- - , pected to contain treasonable correspondence had/been opened in transit through •Vie post. The statement gave rise to a discussion in the Houses The press pv aerally refer to the matter at length in their leading: articles. Various opinions are being expressed as to the action 'of the government. News has been received f rom £ e yrout in Syria, that troubles, nave eviseu between the Christians a&d Turks, and several conflicts have c^en.place, result ang m loss oflife 15oth siaeß . Mr Parnp w« has addressed a letter to 6 at Dublin, in which he urges '‘ members to maintain a passive attitude; of . resistance to the coercive measures proposed, to be adopted by Government in Ireland, .and, moreover to use every means to foster agrarian agitation of the masses, uot only in Ireland but thfoughont'Great Britain. The Daily News of to-day publishes a paragraph stating that Government has received telegrams from Sir George•CoUey containing proposals for peace by. the Boers, and says that the proposals are now being discussed by the Cabinet. Berlin,. Feb. 15. The German Parliament lyas opened by the Emperor to-day, who, in his speech on the occasion/ strongly affirmed the fact that a general agreement exists among the <3rrest. Powers, to -use every possible effort in the direction of the maintenance of European peace;