CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1323, 9 March 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

by electric tbwsqwb—copyright Reuter's Telegrams, MELBOURNE, March 8, Received March 3, 4.10 p,m,-»A coalition Ministry has heen formed as follows: - Mr James Service, Premier, Oolonial Treasury and Minister of Public Ine truction. Mr Graham Beery, Chief Secretary and Postmaster-General,

Mr- Word, Attorney-General Mr Tupker, 'of Lands, Mr Gillies, Minister $ Bjily/ays,.. Mr Denkin f fff Mr Levien, Minister of Mines. Mr Langridge, Commissioner of Trades and Customs. Mr Anderson, Minister of Justice. Mr SovgoorJ JQPthe Ministry without portfolio, LONDON, March 5. Consols remain at 103$. New Zealand securities are firm at last quotations, viz,: 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 106$ ;5 per cent. 1889 loan, 104; 4| percent. 1879-190410 an 102. Colonial breadstnffs are quiet, and unchanged, Adelaide wheat, 51s, ex warehouse; New#ea}and. 46s (lowest price), ex warehouse j Acfelaipje sour, 34s 6d, ex warehouse, Australian WW Wtinues dull—Boef, average brpds, 40s 6d; mutton, average brands, 435, A good demand was again experienced at' toiay's wool auction. The catalogue compiised 13,000 bait*

. LONDON, March 6. . A severe gale, accompanied by a heavy fall of snow, has been experienced over the greater part of England. Much damage has been canned on the land by the wind and the snow drifts, and many disasters at sen are reported, owjng to the severity of the gale which has raged along %ceasts, • Intelligence is-.to tend to Paris that'there is every reason to believe that Byrne, who was recently arrested under an extradition warrant, charged with complicity in the Irish conspiracies, will be at once released by the French authorities." , ;

. lu the House of Commons to-day a;' Bill forbidding the use of pigeons '.at shooting; matohos was read a second time."- '■■''." .'■ '';."

: Received March 9, 12.30 noon,--At, to-day's wool, sale 12,500 bales, were offered/ Less; demand .was experienced, and prices were occasionally easipr, excepting for Port Philip: and Sydney wools;. lorgood greasy; aid;

good combing wools generally prices I are firm. - , | The market for Colonial breadstuffe and tallow is weak, but quotations are without change. ' \' x MELBOURNE, ' ' March 8. In the action Moss v Union Steamship Company for 'cjamage to the tug Ejqphia hj' collision with, tlm. steamship, Manapqqti, a yerdict l)as been returned for the plaintiff fop £6OO, I Friday. the body of a man named Robort Harding, recently found in the water at Brighton with a wound in the throat, has been exhumed, as there are grave suspicions that deceased merwith bis death through foul play. •■•■..- v,.-.*:'., •..'. • ■ k'■'"'■■■■ Later. , It-;is''now Relieved that Harding committed suicide, and died by drowning, after cutting.his throat. „■ ■■'■ ,': Parliament', 'stands adjourned to April.3, '.';' ;. '