CABLEGRAMS.
Keuter's Telegrams.
[by electric telegraph—copyright,]
LONDON, ■ February 16. Consols remain at 101. New Zealand securities are quoted to-day as follows; Jive per: cent 10-40 loan remains at 105 j 5 per cent. 1889 loan at 1031; per cent. 1879-1904 loan at 100, ex div.; i per cent inscribed stock has advanced to par. The wheat and tallow markets are unchanged. .
At the wool auction to-day, 10,800 bales were offered. The tone of the sale was quiet. ' Per Merchant Shipping and Underwritirs'. Association London, February 16.—Arrived—Ship Mecia, from Wellington (November 23).
MELBOURNE, r _ February 18, The following is tlie latest betting on tlie race for the Champion Stakes to be run at the V.E C, Autumn Meeting Martini-Henry, even, Commotion, 3'te 1; Off Color, 5 to 1; Sardinia, 7 to 1. • :
HONGKONG, February 16. Received February 19th, 3 p,m.Ncws is to hand from Pekin that Tsotsungtang, Viceroy of Nanking, lias been superseded by Tsengkwotchuan, Governor-General of Canton; . CAIRO, ■ February 17. Gordon Pasha arrived yesterday at Khartoum, and was well received by the populace. " He has issued a proclamation and caused it to be publicly posted throughout the district. The document recognises Mahdi as Sultan of Kordofan, and announces the remission of half taxes now levied, and that free traffic in slaves (sic) will be permitted. The British expedition to Souakim will be confined to relieve Tokar, and will not operate furthei against tlie rebels. Spies have arrived at Souakim stating that Arabs mustering in force near Tokav road are carefully watched by theni, and the spies themselves have been hotly pursued.
MELBOURNE, February 19. Arrived, last night Steamship Wairarapa, from the Bluff,
SYDNEY, February 19th, Received February 19 th, 2.30 p.m.— Arrived, yesterday; morning—steamship Ringarooma from. Auckland, , The - Galifornian sheep recently imported have been found after detention in quarantine to be infected with scab. . '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 20 February 1884, Page 2
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304CABLEGRAMS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 20 February 1884, Page 2
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