LATE CABLE MESSAGE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 27 October 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE MESSAGE.

i * j (by electric telegraph — copyright.) , (beuter's telegrams.) ; Received Oct. 27, 12.55 a.m. 1 „ MELBOURNE. October 26. At the New Zealand Loan and Mer--1 cantile Agency Company's wool sale to--3 day 1900 bales were offered, of which f 1000 were sold. - There was a large atf tendance of buyers, and the competition 1 brisk, prices being firmly maintained. ? Two larppc'ipa, amounting to 800 bales, I werev yj.,t'.< -ei;.:\ ■; :..cu them t being... .•, ..Le'uid' •;.- ■.>/.'<::• tor b merino vas lbd, and \;m: .-.ci..;. o 4 a t lot 67 bales of greasy neeso fiom - :!io b western districts of this colony. Fov a | - lot of 54 bales of scoured merino 2M was .obtained, • These prides, are the

highest yet reaohed- during this season's sales. Good crossbreds are in moderate demand, and firm at about last sales closing rates. Betting on the Cvp — Cunnamulla, 10 tol; Mistaken, 10 to 1; Little Jack, 100 to 12 ; The Drummer, Prometheus, and Savanaka, 20 to 1 . Betting an the Derby— Navigator, 6 to 4; Segenhoe, 4to 1 ; Guesswork, 10 to 1 ; Boolka, 12 to 1 ; Prying Pan, Calma, and Promethus, 20 to 1. A report is current in sporting circles this evening that Prometheus is queer. [The above message was received at his office at 1.57 a.m.] " StiMi waters run deep," and the unpretending virtue of an article is more apt to be genuine than that which flaunts itself in noisy and ostentatious show. Tho compounds and specifics adTertisod in Unming placards and garish posters need such adventitious ■ agencies to foist them into public notice ; but such a. preparation as Udolpiio Womb's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps modestly but effectually assorts it own superiority and takes the public patronage by sheer force of its intriusic 'merits. — Advt.