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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1078, 19 May 1882, Page 2

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ENGLISH NEWS. London, May 17.. Consols have advanced to 102 J. New Zealand securities are at lasl .(imitations, Adelaide wheat has declined to 635, ox store; New Zealand ditto remains at 81s. Adelaide flour has fallen to 355, ex store. Australian tallow, best beef, 43s Cd ; best mutton, 445. At the wool Bale to-day, 10,600 bales won ofTored. Port Phillip wools are languid, and small quantities have been withdrawn. The polico to-day effected tho arrest at Liverpool of ton men on hoard tho outbound Bteamer Egypt. It is believed the capture has been made in connection with the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke. Mr George Otto Trevelyan, tho newlyappointed Irish Secretary, has been reelected for Hawick without opposition. The cricket match, Australians versus Oxford University, was won to-day by tho Australians by nine wiekels. San Francisco, May 18. The homeward Australian and New Zealand mails, which left Auckland 011 April 25th, arrived here to-day, being'two days in advance of contract time. Adelaide, May 18. The section of the Great Northern Railway between Quom aud Government Gums, which completes a distance of 198 miles from Port Augusta, was opened today by the Governor with the customary ceremony. Melbourne, May 18. Arrived, this afternoon-Union Company's steamship Ringarooma, from the Bluff. An explosion of dynamite occurred this morning at Prahran, by which Culson's stablea were destroyed, many vehicles being shattered to pieces, and the premises adjoining seriously damaged. The explosion is said to have been caused by an incendiary. CONTINENTAL. . St. Petersburg, May 16. News iB to hand of the death of General Kaufmann, the Commander of the Russian army in Turkestan. Oaeio, May 16., It haß transpired that, acting.iinder tlie advice of the foreign Consuls, the Khedive has patched up an agreement with his Ministers, and the crisis .which was imminent has thus been averted.