CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 13 June 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

.•—-pr — ■* Reuter's Telegrams, by rlrotrio tbleolupk—dopybioht ■i MELBOURNE. ■, Juno 12, , Sailed, this afternoon—Unjon Company's steamship Manapouri, for the Bldff. . ' . The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company oi New Zealand) (Limited) reports of the local grain market as follows :—Shipping wheat is quieter, but steady at 5s to 5s Id," For New Zealand oats prices are barely maintained ;, feeding oats are quoted at 3s to 3s 3d; milling ditto, 3s 3d%> ! 3s 4d; New Zealand oats, under, bond, 2s 3d to 2s 6d. The market is - slightly in favor of buyers. • , ' LONDON,/ ; . ' ',., %11Consols remain at lOOf"'', There are no changes to report in quotations for, colonial securities and produce, r , ' '•' At the wool auction tiwiay, 10,700 bales wero' offered. Tbe. tone of the sale was.again firiri. Hop reports to hand continue favorable,'and & good yield'is expected. The P.* and 0, steamship' Shannon ' arrived at Plymouth fo-ctoy from Melbourne (April 24). ""''" rMELBOURNE,'^ ■ ;:•;,. ..!■':■::! ;'".-:" : Junel2. ■ Mr James Service's proposal'for the annexation of the New Hebrides ; Islands has received the cordial approval of Lord Normandy, and bis Excellency has'telegraphed, to Lord \ Derby, urging the expeiienoy-bf the • project. . • .., •-,",. ' The Victorian loau of £p,ooo will be placed qn, tbe London ' market, toi da y- ' ■■"■■■ss j The prisoner Sweeney, .alias >mg- , more who was arrested in Sydney on i a charge of robbing the Colonial Bank r at lirnnswick in April last, was brought ' up at the Police Court to-day and coin- ? mitted for trial, LONDON,;'" • June 11. The trial of the seven dynamite conspirators who were arrested in April last in Birmingham, and London was commenced at the Old Bailey to-day before Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, Lord Justice Brett, and Mr Justice Grove, '•' In the House of Lords last, night, the second reading of the Bill for legnlising.raarriage with a deceased wife's sister was, after some discussion, carried by a majority of Severn •■■'■■< . . MELBOURNE, • : ... • •..,.,;- v. •. , Wednesday. Received June 13,1 p.m.r—lfc is now stated that the Victorian loan has been postponed,until next month, and that tenders will be opened in London on the3rdJuly.:, • .; ;'" : The Argus to-day.. publishes an outline of a hew defence scheme and states tbiit it is proposed to disband the volunteers and establish volunteers and .militia of I,soo"men. It is also intended to obtain several officers.and sergeants from England to control the forco, the total strength of which in cavalry, infantry engineers, and artillery wili'.be 2,600, The Argus' leading article to-day considers the action of the Victorian Government in regard to the proposed annexation of the New Hebridies as somewhat premature, and calculated to | defeat the ends in view.