CABLEGRAMS.
Reuter's Telegrams,
BV. ELECTRIO TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.
MELBOURNE,
November 26,
Tho Hon. James Francis, who has been seriously ill for some days past, and whose condition on ; Saturday last was considered critical, is now improving in health.
MADRID,
November 25.
Prince Frederick William of Germany, who arrived here yesterday on a visit to King Alfonso, will remain in this country for three weeks.. •
LONDON November 26,
Telegrams have reached here from Madagascar, stating that active hostili. ties have been resumed by the French fleet under Admiral Galliber.
Vohamar, a coast town, has been bombarded by the .'.French war. ships, the principal, buildings being burned, and a number of persons, among whom were five British subjects, being killed, The attack was carried on with great severity, and tlio town was shelled for several hours, a large amount' of property owned by. neutral natives as well as by the Hovas being destroyed.- . ■ ' - s 1 MELBOURNE;.; ; . ; \.'i '' November 2s. Messrs Groldsborpugh and Company. (Limited)'have, published a telegram, dated London, November 22, • reporting that the wool market is'firm, and that a fair demand is being expereienced at
the present series of colonial wool sales. Good crossbred wools arerather higher ; coarse crbssbreds are neiglected, and difficult of sale. 1 .';■ ■' ' ■ • .■■'■•■; ;• \ LONDON,/ November 24, . The wheat market continues steady. Adelaide, ex store, 46s 6d; New Zealand ditto, 38s 6d to 44s 6d. Adelaide flour, ex store, 325, Australian tallow—Best beef, 38s 6d, beat, mutton, 39a The catalogue at to-day's wool auction comprised 9800 bales. The-tone oft the market continues firm, sydnby,. v _•;;; November 26. Five French escapees from New Caledonia, coming to Sydney in a schooner which they had seized, suffered great privations on the. voyage from Noumea; Two. others who started with them died before making land. CAIRO, '■'■■.'''•"■ November 26. Received November 27, 1.30 p.m,' —lntelligence is to hand from Khartoum, a large town in Upper Nubia, that H Mahdi, with a Y great following, is now in close proximity to the place, and has stopped all supplies from entering. It is .feared that the rebels are about to attack the town, and the population (numbering nearly fifty thousand) are panic stricken, hundreds having already fled from their homes
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1545, 27 November 1883, Page 2
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362CABLEGRAMS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1545, 27 November 1883, Page 2
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