CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1232, 17 November 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

■ -' ;l 'Melbourne, November 16, ... Received Npyeraber»,l6, ,10.20. p.m.-r-Arrived, this afternoon—Union Company'i steamship Manspouri, from the - ':•:::■-:. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company (Limited), during Iheir wool sales for the past week, have catalogued 2230 , ;bales,'compri«i'ie mine very choice clips/ There ■ has been a large attendance of buyers, and brisk competition for the lotß offered.:,-The high'priceß realised earlier in the season are fully maintained to the satisfaction of growerß. Good, sound, well-grown wools continue to oommandVextreme rates! During the week 20d6 4 bales 'have ' been sold, the balance being withdrawn. A marked feature in the sales for the present season ilias been the attendance of a large number of buyers u oporating direotly on behalf of the various home and colonial factories. Middlemen and speculators' have found themselves compelled to stand aloof.

, LONDON,,, j - f: ■ 1 . • •■ November 16. Received- November 17. 1 a.m.—A statement contained in yesterday's " Standard," that.Mr Childers was to replace Mr Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to be Bucdeeded by Lord Northbrook as Secretary for War, jb now officially denied, ALEXANDRIA, November 15. ■ Sulemanlßey has testified to the Royal Commission of Inquiry for the trial of Arsbi that the latter ordered him to set fire to Alexandria, and to murder the Khedive. •' ; ' SYDNEY.,., . ,;• ... Norembei'loY In the,Legislative Assembly,' to-night the debate on the second reading'of the Land ActAmendment.Bill,wasiolosed, and on going to a division the Bill was rejected by 48 to 33 In oonse juence of the result of the division the Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, moved jhe adjournment of the House, 1 wliioh'was agreed .to. It is generally believed that the Ministry will resign in consequence of its defeat. .MELBOURNE, :■ November 16. In the Legislative Aisembly to-night, Sir Bryan O'Loghlen stated that he was willing to modify the Loan Conversion'Bill and provide for three Bills in its place-one for a loan of £3,800,000, one for the inscription, of stock, and one for a small loan to be raised in the colony for oortain necessary public works, The House, it is understood, generally, approves of the Premier's; amended.: proposals, • This day.

Received Nov. 17th, 1 p.m.—The statement recently current that the Hon. W, J. Clarke will shortly be created a baronet is now fully confirmed. At a late period of last night's sitting in the Legislative Assembly, Sir Bryan O'Loghlen's motion for modification of proposals r« loan conversion.was carried, and the threatened orisis has consequently been averted,