CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1542, 23 November 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

~;. Reuter's Telegrams, by electric telegraph,—copyright. LONDON, • November 20. Received 23, 11,45 a.m.—Consols remain at lOlf. New Zealand securities' unchanged, Market rate discount has fallen to 2 per cent., and now 1 percent below bank rate, Colonial breadstuff's continue steady. At the wool sales to-day ten thousand bales were catalogued. The tone of tho auction: $m firm, and there was good demand for Australian crossbreds. • .

, Tlie mails via < Biindisi, ■which left Melbourne on October 11, wore deliyered at London to-day. ' - >n i -;'. SYDNEY, 'ii.IP ' .. i 23.

Arrived,yesterday morning—Union' steamship Manapouri, from Auckland. Sailed,, this afternoon—steamship Hauroto,,for Wellington..... Lord Rosflbery,who is now in this city, bas ; visited most of the pnblic. institutions and,.other objects. of interest in the neighborhood since his arrival. : ;.-.: ■;■:■.:■■ •■<■' "■•"-" ': BOMBAYJ ? I ....November 21. ~.,The Duke of Connannht arrived here to-day from London; en route for Meerut, to take upbia: marid. His Royal ffiglmeWsndeJin tho presence 'of.nit 'immense roncourse o£ people) by whom he- was cordially recejyed, much enthusiasm being displayed. ■ :: '• T;;>! ■; •■-■ LONDON;; , ; V "''

~.,-;. A French brig, named iltockab'erg, lias been ia cblUssion - witlr r vessel in the Atlantic. The Kockaberg sunk almost immediately, and eightyeight persons have been drowned,

THREE DAYS BATTLE IN THU, SOUDAN. ' ' TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF THE :-■. 'EGYPTIAN ARMY. ONLY ONE MAN ESCAPING FROM THE SLAUGHTER. ALEXANDRIA, November-22. Received November 23,. 12.40 p.m. —lntelligence has reached here that the Egyptian Army in Soudan under General Hicks Pasha has been totally, annihilated by the rebel followers of El Mahdi, the falso prophet." No details are yet to hand. . •'. '': '\':'y[ '•■•'■' LATERi ■■; Some particulars have been received' from Soudan regarding the destruction of the Egyptian Army, which is now fully confirmed. Accounts to hand state that the battle, lasting three days, was fought between the rebels' and the whole force under the. command d General ; Hick's. The fighting was most desperate on both sides, but the Egyptian troops were outnumbered and completely annihilated by. the rebels, who gave no quarter, only one man escaping from the slaughter. MELBOURNE, November 22. ' ;At their wool sale to-day the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) catalogued 4500 bales, including 1800 bales of scoured woolh. All good wools elicited brisk competition,., last week's prices boing firmly maintained j inferior and faulty descriptions are, however, rather lower. Four thousand one hundred bales were sold, greasy realising up to 13d and scoured to 22fd. There was a large attendance of buyers, and good competition was experienced. LONDON, ; November 22. ,

Received November 23, 11.45 a.m, The secretary of the Wellington and Francisco Bank (Limited) has ab sconded defalcations stated to amount to fifty thousand pounds. PARIS, November 22. It has transpired that' Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambassador, has informed M. Ferry, French Premier, that an attack by French forces on Bac Ninh, Tonquin, will be deemed by the Chinese Government as a casus, Mil The Marquis Tseng has also informed Ferry that the report to hand two days ago that the Chinese troops had evacuated Bac Ninh is devoid truth.

MELBOURNE, Thursday. .' The Hon. Major Atkinson, Premier of New Zealand, had an interview yesterday with Mr Service, Premier of Victoria. In the courso of their conversation Major Atkinson said his Government was thoroughly in unison with that of Victoria on the question of the Pacific Islands annexation, LONDON, November 21. The cargo of frozen meat, consisting of 3650 carcases of sheep, per steamship Garonne from Melbourne (Oct. 6), arrived in perfect condition. It has been decided, however, by the consignees, to store the meat for the present, as the market was temporarily glutted by tho Doric's cargo from New Zealand.