CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 20 March 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Eeuter's Telegkams,

[by electric telegraph—'copyright.]

LONDON,

Marchl7.

Consols remain at 102, and New Zealand securities as follows:—Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 102|; 5 per cent, 1889 loan, 104 j 4£ per cent. 18791904 loan, 100, ex div.; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100. The market rate of discount has fallen to 2|, and is now | below the Bank rate. Adelaide wheat, ex store, remains at 46s for new crop, and New Zealand ditto at 36s to 425. Adelaide flour, ex store, 30s,

Australian tallow, avorage qualityBeef, 37s 6d; mutton, 40s 6d. MELBOURNE,

March 18. Sailed, this afternoon—Union steam ship Tarawera, for the Bluff. LONDON,

March 18.

The homeward mails per steamship Orient, via Suez and Brindisi, from Melbourne, February 8, we.e delivered here yesterday. Tenders are invited by the West Australian Government for a loan of bearing interest at 4 per cent. The maximum is fixed at 96|, Tenders close on Monday next.

In the House of Commons last night, Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated, in reply to a question, that the Government did not intend to protest against the action of the German Gtfj vemment in stationinga man-of-warin the South Seas during the labor season. , LONDON, March 17. Received March 18,1.30 p.ru.—The application for a new trial in the BejtLawes case has been refused. SYDNEY, March 18, Arrived, this afternoon—The Union steamship} Wakatipu, from Wellington. \ The prisoner Williams has been found guilty of „the murder of Elizabeth Phillips, the'victim of the Wooloomooloo outrage, and has been sentenced to death. Rain has fallen over portions of the colony, MELBOURNE, March. 18. R. B. Fletcher, mining manager of Sandhurst, who was recently arrested on a charge ofeinbezzloment, hasbeen committed for trial. • HOBART, March 18. A rifle match, between the Invercargill Rifle Corps and the Tasmanian Rifle Regiment, has resulted in a victory for the local men. ADELAIDE, Wednesday. Received March 19, 12.50.-Both Houses of Parliament of the South Australian Parliament will be dissolved to-day. The general elections are fixed to take place in April. LONDON, March 18. The cargo by steamship Aorangi from New Zealand, consisting of about 12,000 carcasses of mutton, arrived in good condition. First portion sold today at 5f d per pound. «°to—a—i