CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1093, 7 June 1882, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FO KEIGN NEWS SIR HENRY PARKES' TRIUMPHAL PROGRESS. THE SULTAN ORDERS' FORTIFICATION OF ALEXANDRIA TO CEASE,GARIBALDI'S. BODY TO BE ORE- • MATED. RESIGNATION OP VICE-CHANCEL-LOR SIR CHARLES HALL.

London, June 5. Tho Orient Company's stoainßhip Sorata, which left Melbourne on April 19, arrived at Plymouth on SaturdayVery unfavorable accounts have been received ot the season's crop from the ( Kentish hop districts. K - Adelaide wheat is quoted to-day at ph 3d (i 60s 3d) for off coast cargoes, At the wool sales to-day 15,700 bales were offered, The market is rather weaker for most descriptions, but fine to finest qualities are firm. ■ ;•■ A portion of the cargo'of frozen meat ex ship Dunedin was sold at auction today, and realised an average of C|d per lb for mutton and 7|d for lamb. Telegrams have been received from Belgium stating- that Sir Henry Parkes was officially received on his arrival, and that banquets and other entertainments are being'organised in bis honor. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Chsrloß Dilko, the Under-Secretary .for Foreign Affairs, denied, in reply to a question, that the Porte had rejected a proposal to hold a conference of the Powers with regard to the Egyptian question, or that lord Dufferin had suggested that the meeting of the conference should lo postponed on account of the action which the Sultan has token. Vice-Chancellor the Hon. Sir Charles Mifosuffering from paralysis, and has itsigned'his Feat on the Bench. ThoprMtt match which was to have been commenced to-day at Bradford, between rhe Australian Eleven and Yorkshire county team, has been postponed until to-morrow, on account of rain. Melbourne, June 6. , A disastrous boiler explosion occurred at the Apollo Stearine Candle Manufactory, Brown's Hill, to-day. The h.iii.iingi worn seriously damaged and one man lost his life. Sailed, this afternoon-Union Company's steamship Albion, for the Bluff. Sydney, June 6. Arrived, yesterday evening—Union Company's steamship Arawata, from Auckland. •

Ottawa, June 5, H.K.H. Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lome, arrived at Quebec to-day from England.

, Constantinople, June 5. It has transpired that the Sultan-has tent a telegram to the Khedive desiring bim to order Arab! Pasha to put a stop to the construction of fortifications in the neighborhood of Alexandria. Naples, June 5. The news.of the death of Garibaldi has been received with great regret, and there .b universal mourning to-day throughout 'ltaly. It', is. .announced that his-will directs that, his.b'ody shall be cremated. ;>■•■ '■ "London,; May 22. Therejhas. been considerable discussion lately in the Press at Madrid on the financial policy of tho country, and an agitation in favor of 'free trade has been started- in the Spanish capital. It is stated that the coronation' of tho f Czar, wbioh had. been fixed for the 6th September, has now been postponed for an itapj^reyear. jSSJUWb-opening of St. Gothard tunnel through the Alpa, is celebrated in Switzerland with.great rejoicings. In the towns and canton of Lucerne Bpechi fetei are being held in honor of the occasion. Owing to stringent measures (introduced by the Government for repression of crime in Ireland, considerable anxiety is felt' for the personal safety of members of the Min. istry, and in order to guard against murder•us attempts on them by the Irish in London, they we vigilantly guarded by police. A deputation of Scotch farmers had ah interview with Mr Gladstono. at which they' laid before him their views on tho necessity of radical reform in the present relations R betweeni tenant farmers of Scotland and their landlords. Mr Gladstone, after hearing the arguments brought forward by the deputa-' tion.pronuseatogive the roatterhieoiost careful consideration. •■■•.-■ Iti ? reported at WTttat Princes Beatrice is betrothed to Prince William of Hesse, the young brother of the reigning MeLudwiglV. who married Pr&cess Ah«. PrlncoWiniamisaege'arsofage. The National party in Egypt'is highly incenrtd at the action of tho Khedive m yieldJug to ofvthe European Powrs - and thrtots against his life have been m v ad ; by extreme members of the party, ■ Bishop of London, has orvd»red;Bpecial prayers to be read in all the churches of his diooeso for restoration, of peace and order in Ireland. ,