CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4424, 9 March 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Heuteb's Telegrams.

[Received March 9, 12.30 p.m.]

London* March 6.

At to-day's wool sale 12,500 bales were offered. Less demand was experienced, and prices were occasionally easier, excepting for Port Philip and Sydney, good greasy and good combing wools generally; for these descriptions prices are firm.

The market for colonial bread-stuffs and tallow is week, but quotations are without change.

[Received March 9,1 p.m.]

London, March 7

At the wool sale to-day 11,900 bales were catalogued; there was a good demand for fine wools, but inferior and medium qualities were neglected.

The P. and O. steamship Ballarat, from Melbourne (January 17th), arrived at Plymouth to-day.

The Homeward mails via Naples, which left Melbourne per John Elder on Jan. 24th, were delivered here to-day.

London, March 6

A severe gale, accompanied by a heavy fall of snow, has been experienced over the greater part of England. Much damage has been caused on the land by wind and snowdrifts, and many disasters at sea are reported, owing to the seventy of the gale which raged along the coasts.

It is reported that Sir Henry Lefroy will assume the Governorship of Ceylon for a year pending the arrival of Sir Arthur Gordon. ';,•■'

Intelligence is to band from Paris that Byrne, who was recently arrested under an extradition warrant, charged with complicity in the Irish conspiracies, will be at ODce released by the French authorities.

London, March 8.

In the House of Commons to-day a bill forbidding the use of pigeons at shooting matches was read a second time.

[Roceired March 9, 2 p.m.] Bombay, March 8.

11 Major " Tucker, of the Salvation Army, who was arrested here last month while parading the streets, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and four of his colleagues have been fined.

Paris, March 8. Byrne is still detained in custody, pending the arrival of a fresh warrant charging him with complicity in the murder of Field, the juryman, and in the attempt on the life of Judge Lawson.