CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1560, 15 December 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegrams, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, December 14. The Right Hon, W. E, Forster, M.P, for Bradford, addressed his constituents last night, In tho course of his Bpooch Mr Forster said that he was rejoiced to hear of the prepoaed federation, of the Australian Colonies, and he trusted Lord Derby would bo ablo to accede to tlio request of the Australian Convention for the annexation of Now Guinea and the Pacific Islands. SYDNEY, December 14, Now Zealand wheat per bushel, 3s 6d; New Zealand oats, 2s Gd; maizo, 3s 3d. Suijar-Company's No. 1 pieced per ton 134. ADELAIDE, December 14. j The_ wheat market is firm. To-day's quotations aro 4s 4d f.o.b. at outports and 4s 6d at Adelaide. Flour—Town brands, £lO to £lO ss; country ditto, £9lO to £9lsa. Freight lu Londoii—stearaera, 46a, nominal; ditto sailing, 35b, Freight to United Kingdom from Adelaide—sailing, 37s to 40s; ditto from all ports, 40s to 425. The freight market is firm. Charters are dull with little doiug. HONGKONG, December 14, Admiral G. 0. "NVillca, C.8., commanding tho China squndron, is now .at Canton. Information has been received from Canton that tho fortifications surrounding that city have been put in complete readiness to withstand an attaok if an outbroak should ocour, and that strong bodies of .troops aro posted iu tho neighborhood of tho city. PARIS, Decemqei'l4. Intelligence is to hand from Tonquin reporting that the King of Anam has been poisoned, and that his death hits been cawed by a conspiracy among the antiFrench party in Anam.