CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 26 September 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegrams, .> BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT

MELBOURNE, " Wednesday. 'Received September 26, 12,20 p.m. —At a meeting of members of the Scots Church last evening, it was decided'to secede from the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, and revert to the positiqn previous to the act of union, September 25. Received September 26, 1 a.m.— The balance of the bars of gold stolen from the Commercial Bank of Australia were discovered to-day buried in the earth at Mordialloc, fifteen miles southeast of this city, the locality indicated by tho prisoner Cofbett. The prisoner : Burns, who was sentenced to death for tire • murder of Michael Quinlivin in 1880, was executed to-day. LONDON, ; ; September 23. The explosions at the rocket factory, Woolwich, continued without intermission for upwards of an hour. Some of the rockets travelled for miles, but in the majority of cases little' or'no damage was done by them. It iii believed that the explosion of the factory was accidental. Telegrams which have been received from Zanzibar report that fighting has taken place between the Hovas and the French troops in Madagascar. The former made an attack in force on the position occupied by the French on the West (sic) Coast of the island, and after stubborn fighting, lasting several hours, the French were driven from the position with considerable loss.

MELBOUNRE, : " ' September 25. The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and. Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), reports of the local grain market as follows The wheat market is depressed j shipping parcels, 4s lOd; fowls' wheat, 3s Od to 4- 4d; malting barley, 5s to 5s 9d. The market is sluggish. New Zealand oats are in fair demand. Feeding sorts are worth 3s to 3s 2d; milling ditto, 3s 2d to 3s 3d : New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 2d to 2s sd.