CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1570, 29 December 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

.Keuter's Telegrams, by electric teleoraph,-copyriqht. SYDNEY, „ . December 28. Received December 29, 1 a,m,— Sailed, yesterday afternoon—Union steamship Ringaroomn, for Auckland, Seven' men have been arrested by the police on charges of complicity in the murder of Catherine Owens, at Waterloo, on Wednesday last, . ADELAIDE, ' \ ' • Decomber 28. Arrived, this morning—Messageries Maritimes steamship Melbourne, from Marseilles (Nov. 22). LONDON, December 28. Thn Australian mails, dated Melbourne, November 17, per Orient steamship Chimborazo, were delivered, via Naples, yesterday. Obituary.—Thomas Holloway, proprietor of Holloway's pills and ointment. NEW YORK, December 28. General Granthas met with a painful accident, having slipped in the street and fallen heavily, seriously injuring his hip.

ST. PETERSBERG, December 28. A bulletin issued to-day states that the Czar is recovering from the accident to his shoulder recently sustained while hunting.

SYDNEY, December 28.

New: Zealand wheat: has advanced 1 to 3s 9d per bushel. New Zealand oats have further fallen to 2s 4d.; Maize remains at 3s 6d, and: Sugar, Company's No Ipieces at £34.' . ! /LONDON, December 27. i The total reserve in the Bunk of: England is £12,300,000, a decrease of £700,000 as compared with the re-' servo last Thursday. The proportion of reserve to liabilities has fallen 6; per cent, during the week, and is now 3 pa* coat. '.-■ The Bank rate of; discount remains at 3 per cent, and the market rate at 2| per cent, . ,', • ;Tho wheat and tallow markets are without quotable change. Best Scotch pig iron has further fallen 6d per ton, and is how. quoted f.o.b. in Clyde at 46s 6d. Galvanised iron, 26 gauge, has declined to £lB, packed in cases, f.o;b. in London.

LONDON, December 27. ; Received December 28th, 2.40 p.m. —A report is current to-day that the French Government intends to hold the Chinese Government answerable for expenses Prance may incur in; despatching troops to Tonquin in consequence of hostile attitude of China in: that country. Telegiams "are'to hand horn New Foundland announcing that a serious' riot has occurred in the harbour of Graceport in Conception Bay between Orangemen and Catholics. The rival parties numbered several hundreds, and: fighting was carried on for some time. Three contestants were killed and numbers seriously wounded in the affray. >