CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 8 November 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Rf.uter's Telegrams, LONDON, November 7. A most disastrous explosion occurred at Monkfield colliery, .at Accringtonnearßlackburn, Lancashire. According to latest news to hand fully a hundred men were entombed in the mine, and it is feared they all perished. ALEXANDRIA, November 7.' Reports have reached here from Soudan, that El Mahdi, false prophet, and leader of the rebellion in Kordofan, is dead. AMSTERDAM, November 7. The Executive Commissioners for Netherland have made recommendations to the Ministor for Foreign Affairs that decorations should be conferred upon the representatives of the Australian colonies at tho recent exhibition in this city. MELBOURNE, , Thursday. Sailed, yesterday afternoon—Ringar rooma for the Bluff. '■ November 7, The Melbourno Manager of .the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) report's of the local grain market as follows Wheat is depressed, shipping parcels, 4s 3d; malting barley, 4s 8d to 5s sd, quotations are nominal; Now Zealand oats are quiet, feeding, sorts, 2s lOd to 3s Id; milling ditto 3s Id to 3s 2d. At their wool salo this weok Messrs Goldsborough and Company (Limited) sold 4500 bales. Greasy merino brought up to lid, scoured pieces to 18fd. LONDON, November 6. Wheat is unchanged, Adelaide, ex store, 45s 6d; New Zealand ditto, 38s 6d to 44s 6d. Australian tallow—Best beef, 38s Cd ; best mutton, 40s. PARIS, ; ' November 7. Official despatches from Tonquin announce that Admiral Combel has decided to postpone until next month his projected advance against Bac Ninh. Telegrams are also to hand stating that the Chinese are preparing to offer desperate resistance to the French attack,

LONDON, November 7. latest reports from Accrington state that the entombed miners in Monkfield colliery have been rescued. . MELBOURNE, ._ • " ■ Thursday. Received November Bth, 12,40 p.m. —The steamship Rodonda, which went ashore on Lonsdale reef on Tuesday and was subsequently : beached is now full of water, and her position s deemed very critical.