CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 14 March 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Eeuter's Telegrams. ••■■ [by electric telegraph—copyright.] PARIS, ;•- March 11. Despatches to hand from Tdnquin arnouncee that the main body of the French army has arrived before Bapninh, and'that two forts in vicinity of' that town havo been captured and occupied by the.French troops, ~■<.:■;. LONDON, ..'' ;!^: Mrrchll Consols remain at 101 J, and •Mv Zealand security are quoted t ( o-day as follows:—s per cent. 10-40 loan,lo2^ 5 per cent, 1880 loan 104 ) ty per cent. 1879-1804 loan, 100, ex div.; ; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100.

Colonial boadstuffs are unchanged. % Adelaide wheat, ex-store, 445; New Zealand ditto, 46s to 425. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 30s. Australian tallow, average quality, beef, 38s; mutton, 41s 6d, At the wool sales all descriptions except low and faulty wool are steadier" MELBOURNE, • "*• March 42,-,, Sailed tliis afternoon—Union steamship Manapeuri, for tho Bluff. LONDON, March 11. The homeward mails, via Suez and Brindisi, dated Melbourne, January 31, were delivered here to-day. A portion of the cargo of frozen mutton.ox steamship Potosi was sold to-day at s|d to 5Jd per lb. The meat was in excellent condition, ALBANY, Thursday.: Received March 13, 12.40 p.m.--Arrived/at King George's Sound, last evening—P. and 0. steamship Ballarafc with English mails dated London, Bth : February, The Victorian Navigation. Board has written to Dunedin to ascertain the feature of the enquiry held there into

the cause of the collision .•between" tile' Wairarapa and the Adelaide.'. -The. Board wish to know whothorits;:prov posed enquiry is invalidated by the official enquiry held at'Dunedin.'^; t MELBOURNE, -Ml'' ■ Thursday. .. Received March 13th, 2.40 pira.~ Goldsborough's Annual Wool Review •which has been issued states that last seasons clip has been excellent The Sales in the colonies have amounted to 348,000 bales or forty per cent of total production sales, The increases have been as follows:—Victoria, 34,000. bales; Sydney, 35,000;■ Adelaide 4,000. There has been an active demand for the Continent, whither. 64,000 bales have been exported. 22;000 bales have been sent to America an increase of 14,000. The total exports for the year show an increase of 83,500 bales, compared", with the previous year.