TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1021, 24 October 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Oct. 17.

A Conference has commenced sitting at Dublin for the purpose of discussing measures for the formation of a national league to promote an Irish Parliament, the creation of County Boards, and to obtain the widest land and political reforms. Mr Parnell presides over the Conference.

Oct. 18

A portion of the cargo of frozen meat ex Chimborazo was placed in the market to-day. The S.ydney mutton, which has been found to be in good condition, realised an average price of s£d per lb. That shipped at Melbourne brought G^-d.

Oct. 19.

Tenders for the Auckland Harbor Board £150,000 five per cent loan were opened to-day. The total amount offered is £345,500, tenders ranging from £lO3, the average being £lOl 12s 2d. Tenders at £lOl 10s 6d and upwards will be received in full, and those at £lOl 10s will receive 75 percent.

The Bank rate remains at 5 and the market rate at 3| per cent. The Bank reserve stands at £10,309,000, or £300,000 more than last week.

Colonial breadstuffs at 49s for Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, and 43s to 46s for New Zealand ditto. Adelaide flour, 48s, ex warehouse.

Oct. 20

The Homeward mails via San Francisco. which left Auckland on Sept. 12th, were delivered here to-day, three days in advance of contract time.

The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain decreased by 300,000 quarters during the week, and is now 1,830,000 quarters.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Oct. 21

A moderate rainfall is now general throughout Victoria and South Australia, and will prove of immense good to both colonies.

The local agent of the P, and O. Steamship Company has received a telegram reporting that the steamship Peshawur, with the inward mails, whieh left London on September 22nd, came into collision with a barque shortly after leaving Colombo, Ceylon, and has put back to effect repairs. The damage sustained by the Peshawur is not of a serious nature, and it is expected that she will start again on the 23rd inst.

Private advices announce that the first prize-takers from Victoria at the Bordeaux Exhibition were as follows : Adamson, Melton, Grosse, Ritchie, Johnson, Castella and Rewan, Bruhn, Tabilk Vineyard, and Cougbey.

Oct. 22

Further telegrams to hand state that the Peshawur has returned to Colombo, having in tow the barque Gleuloy, with which she collided. Both vessels are damaged, The necessary repairs to the

Peshawar will be effected without delay, and she is expected to be aide to start for Melbourne in a few days. Sydney. Oct. 21.

The ship Northampton, 1161 tons bound for tiiis pert with immigrants, struck on a reef off Port Hacking, and was successfully towed into Botany Bay and beached there, and the immigrants safely landed. The casualty occurred owing to a heavy fog which obscured the land.

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

London, Oct. 18

The Porte has addressed a note to the British Ambassador expressing a desire to negotiate with England for the settlement of affairs in Egypt on the basis of the status quo ante bellum. It has tronspired that the English Government have decided to submit plans which have been formed by Baker Pasha for the organisation of the new Egyptian army to the European Powers.

The Rt. Hon. H, C. E. Childer-, Secretary of State for War, has written a letter, in the course of which he declares that the recent campaign in Egypt has proved the soundness of the military reforms which have been effected dining the past two years, and at the same time has disclosed the weak points in the organisation of an army when subjected to the strain of actual wai fare. Get. 19. The British troops are now beginning to arrive from Egypt, and banquets are being organised in their honor at several places. Alexandria, Oct. 19. The scheme for the organisation of the Egyptian army which has been drawn out by Baker Pasha has been finally approved of by the British Goverhment. It has now been agreed to by the Egyptian Government that Arabi and his associates will be allowed the services of English counsel on their trial, which will be accordingly forthwith commenced. Paris, Oct, 17. M. Bredif, who left Egypt at the time of the commencement of hostilities, is now returning to that country as French Controller-General.