CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1588, 21 January 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

■. , ■» •. . , : Reuter's Telegrams, ... ; (!' ■ • . ■' ' " 'i BY EIiEOTItIO TELEGIUPH.-COPYRtGIIT. '< ■ LONDON, . ;1 ' ' January 18. ■ ■'Received January 21,' 0.40 a.m.— Consols remain at 101^,"and New Zealand; securities at yesterday's quotations. v Adelaide wheat, ex store, remains at 445, and New Zealand ditto, at 3.65. to 425. Adelaide flour, ex. stove, 3is, The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,880,000 quartere, The wool market is dull,' New arrivals to dato for the first scries of auctions this year now amount to 100,000 bales. LONDON, January 19, T(ie homeward mails via San Francisco, dated Aupkland, December 12, wore delivered here to-day, It has transpired that, at the request of the British Government, Gordon Pasha has'accepted charge of a special mission, and started for Khartoum. Gordon Pasha will be answerable only to the British Government as regards his expedition, and }ias not accepted any command in the Egyptian Army. CAIRO, January 19. No further intelligence is to hand from the Soudan, The telegraph line from Upper Egypt to Khartoum has been cut by the rebel Arabs, NEW YORK, January 18. The steamship City of Columbus, bound from Boston to Savannah, has boon wreoked, with great loss of life. According to the latest intelligence 120 persons were drowned. LONDON, January 19. Received January 22, 1,30 p.m.— The Times to day announces that as the result of the recent conference at Sydney, tjjij British Government will probably undertake tfie maritime defence of Now Guinea.