CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 355, 13 May 1874, Page 3

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, April 27th. London Colonial wool sales opened this evening, wten upwards of 7000 bales were offered, Port Phillip wools preponderating. The attendance both of Home and Foreign buyers was large, Foreign buyers especially numerous, the usual eagerness observable on opening day was absent, and prices, compared with last series, show a decline. Arrival to date 290,000 bales. Arrived — Our Hope, Grasmere, Merope, Zephyr, Columbus, Queen Bee, St. Kilda, Woodlark, Dunmore, Atlanta, Lochinvar. Sailed — Somersetshire. Berlin, April' 2Bth. A letter from Count Arim to Dr. Dollin■ger criticises the .Ecclesiastical Policy of Germany. London, April 30th. Mr. J. A. Youl, of Tasmainia, has been created C.M.G A civic ball was given yesterday by the Corporation of London in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. It was a most brilliant affair. The Bank rate is four per cent, The second day's wool sales showed more animation on the part of buyers. ' Washed wool is a penny per lb lower, and half-breds twopence. Cape wools remain unchanged. r May Ist. Mr. Ward Hunt's representations in moving the Navy Estimates, as to the unsatisfactory condition of the ironclad fleet, has occasioned much discussion. In the Commons the subject was again debated yesterday, ■when Mr: Child ers defended the late adminstration. Mr Hunt maintained the views previously expressed by him, and said that' the Supplementary Estimates were a necessity, but that a .large, expenditure was not contemplated. ' ■ . ; There is a serious famine in Asia Minor. Hundreds of perstns are dying daily. ■ . - , New York, May Ist. An overflow of the Mississippi inundated fourteen thousand square miles of Louisiana. Arkansas, and-Mississippi, including a portion of the best cotton plantations. Teheban May Ist. The overflow of the Tigris caused a flood at Bagdad. London, May 2nd. The wool sales are marked by considerable languor, and' 2ooo bales have been withdrawn. The merchants have decided^ to have only four sales this series, instead of five, and the next sales commence on August 18th. Baline arid Co. report the decline on fleeces at £d to 2d ; scoured and lambs, Hd half-breds 1 Id to 3d. Wheat remains unalered. • . ______

The celebrated speech of Sir Boyle Roche " Mr. Speaker, I smell a. rat ; I see hixa floating 1 in J the : air ; but mark me? 1 shall nip him' in thevbud!"— was evidently the model upon which a writer in a late Kansas paper remarks upon the result of a recent election. He says that " the fall of corruption has been dispelled, and the wheels of the state Government will no longer be trammelled by sharks that beset the public prosperity like locusts." An lowa editor recently eloped with the ■wife of one of ,his subscribers,' and was frightened half "to death by the appearance of the injured man at the hotel of a neighbouring town, to which he had taken bis flight. °, But the husband only wanted his paper stopped— that was all. \ , Andrew Jackson was once making a stump speech in a country village out west. Just as he: was concluding, Amos Kendall, who sat beside him, whispered, "Tip 'em a, little Latin, General, they .won't be satisfied without it." The "hero of New Orleans instantly thought of a few phrases he knew, and, in a voice of ithunder, wound up his speech by'exclaiming :" E pluribus unum, Sine qua non, Ne plus ultra, Multum in parvo." The effect was tremendous, and the shouts conld be heard for miles. CehsiH Officer : " What age madam, shall I put down?" Madam after mature reflection: "Whpthave you put down for the laily overhead ? One of the most ingenious devices' of modern times is that of a young lady in Troy ■who Avhen she has occasion to travel in a street car, always carries a saw-dust 'baby. All the men, who were babies themselves once, hasten to offer her a seat. Elegant. — " Fellow travellers," said a .coloured' preacher, ",ef I had been eatin dried apples for a week, an' then took to drinkin' for a month, I couldn't feel more swelled up than I am dis nrinit wid pride an' vanity at seeing such full 'tendance har dis evening."