CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 23 May 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegrams, ;;"" by' electric telegraph—copvbiqbt LONDON, .'> :• .' May 21. Received May 23, 12.40 p.m.— Consols have declined f, and are now quoted 101f; .. ;.; New Zealand securities, remain at last quotations, Colonial breadstuff continue quiet but firm at the'following; prices :— '. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 60s j New Zealuid ditto, 45a to 48s i'6d. Adelaide/ flour, ex warehouse, 3k Australian tallow, (best beef) ils j best mutton, '43, Market continues .dull, At the wool sales to-day 10,400-bales were offered. 'Present 'prices- were firmly maintained. 1 LONDON/ ■■ May 22. The announcement that the Marquis of Lome was about to be succeeded as tfovernor-Cfeneral of Cana<Ja~by : the Marquis of Lonedowne is officially confirmed. . ; ■ ■•'/ '" .-.' < WASHINOTO-N^' Mr Creighton, whjß,.as agent foixthe New : Zealand Goyerainent, has-been negoeiatin? ;for v the /renewal of. the PaoifiomaU service, haß completed' arrangementaiwith the United States Government for;;the'':contihuation of this ! ilwr?iw, ; and has expreswd him'eeli

confident that the New Zealand Government wM ratify his action. ■■■ MELBOURNE. ' ■.May 22. The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agenoy Company of Now Zealand (Limited) reports of the local grain market as follows : Wheat is quiet at 6s Id to 5s 2d; malting barley is weaker at 5s 6d to 6s. The market- for New Zealaiid r '6atß is steady; feeding sorts are/quoted at 3s. to 3s 3d; milling ditto, 3s 3d to.3ssd. New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 4d |t025.6d.;5-" J Arrived, this evening—Orient steamship John Elder,/from Jißymouth (April 7.) News has been received here that a destructive hurricane and earthquake occurred at Samoa on March 24 (sic), Many vessels wrecked, and two deaths occurred vfroin-drown-ing, -., .-■.!w;/:■/!?!ur.T ■ MELBOURNE, I ■■ ■,:•■,' '■■/■',] -Wednesday. Received May 23, Premier, the Hon James Service, has telegraphed to the instructing'• him to protest .to 'the Imperial Government against the proposed deportation of the' Phoenix Park informers to Australia,' ;: '- :i