CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 17 October 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegrams, BY BIiEOTRIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT' • MELBOUBNK, , OctobeH6.'' • Received October:' 17/ Ta.m,—The following are this evening'B betting quotations-The Caulfield Cup— Oalino, 6 to 1; Footstep, 7 to 1; Josephine, i' 4 to 1. There is nothing doing in the betting' market on the Melbourne Cup. 1 : LONDON, . October 16. It-is understood' that, the -French Mr Shaw JB6o,QQo*as damages for the I

treatment; he received at the hands of the French. authorities in .Madagascar, and. will express regret for the occurranee to 'Lord-.Granville, the British Itaeiga Ministeik • v ■' . oIPETOWN, ' f October 15, , 1 News has been received from Zululand that Usibepu, with a large body of. his adherents, has. mado'Vatf attack upon a tribe friendly to Cetewayo and inflicted great slaughter upon them, fully one-haif being massacred, ; MELBOURNE, : ; October 16,'

; ■ The; Melbourne Manager: of the :'National Mortgage and Agency Comj pany of New Zealand; (Limited) rejporta of tlis local , grain market: as follows The wheat l market-is,less pressed, but there is not muoh doing. Shipping; parcels, 4s 5d ; fowls' wheat, 3s 6 d., to 4s j malting barley, 4s 9d to ,5s fd, .The market is irregular. New Zealand oats are quiet at 2s lid to 3s 3d for milling sorts) New Zealand oats under bond, 2s 2d to 2s 3d. The market is steady,, but 1 the demand is not active. . : !