CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 21 April 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

EEUTEH'S'.TELEaRAJIS. [BY ELECTMOmEGRAHI—COPYRIGHT.] ADELAIDE, April 18. Arrived,, this afternoon, Messageries Maritimes Compiiy's steamship Caleclomen, from Marseilles, March 12. MELBOURNE, Apniis. The Hon, Sir William Foster, Stawell, Chief; Justice of. Victoria, will administer tlie Government until the arrival of Sir JHonry Lock, who has been-appointed to succeed the Marquis of Normanby, The ; into the :• recent disastrous-rmlwajr collision near Little River station was- opened to-day, The evidence taken was of a formal nature, ■ SYDNEY,

April 18. Sailed—tliis evenlng—Union steamship To Anau,'for New Zealand. BRISBANE, April 18, The Hon J. KGarrick has been appointed to succeed- Mr Thomas Archer as Agent-Geri'eral for Queensland in London. ; The'Postmaster-Generalship, which thereby becomes' Vacant, has not as yet been filled. 'SYDNEY, ; April 18. New per bushel, 3s 9d; New' Zeattnd' datß, 2a lOd; maize, 5s 9d. Sugar—Company's No. 1 pieces, per toil, £34: . ADELAIDE, April 18, Wheat, 3s lOd to 3s lid, Tno market is dull, and prices are weak and unsettled. - flour—Town brands, ■£9 10s; country ditto, £8 10s, Quotations are nominal. Freights to London—Steamers, 35s to 40s. The market is dull and nothing doing. LONDON.'

Aprill7, ■ The total reserve ■ iii the Bank of England in notes and bullion is £15,400,000, an- increase of 300,000 since.hist Thursday. The proportion of reserye to liabilities had advanced 2 per cent, during the week, and is now .48 per cent. The . Bank rate of discount remains at 2| per cent., and the markefc rafce afc 2 per cent. • Consols are unchanged at 102|-, andNew Zealand'securities asfollows:— 5 per cent.' 10-40'-loan, 103 j 5 per cent. - inscribed stock, 1011 There are no cKaiiges ' to' report in the markets for colonial bieaclstufifs or tallow.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17. The. ArclidukO; Paitlolph. Prince Imperial of Austria, has arrived in this city on a visit tb tho Sultan. His Highness was accorded a splendid reception.--LONDON, / ■ April 18. Received April 1% 1.10 a.m.—Mr •Harwis (sic),'.the Conservative candidate, was elected - yesterday by an increased majority as the representative for the Poole' constituency. The seat being vacant, by-,the death of Mr 0. Sohreiber.(Conservative). ; ' LONDON, : April 18. It has transpired that a note has and Foreign Minister, to the English Government /on- the subject of the recidiviste question, Ferry re-affirms the opinion of his Government that the question of transport of criminals is a matter, of internal'policy alone, and in no way concerns any. foreign power.. Sir William-.Temon Harcourt, Home addressed Ms constituents at Deirby.last evening. In the. course of liig speech he took occasion to say that he...entirely disagreed .with the opinion recently expressed by Earl Eoseberry at Dundee, that the Government "manifested a want of interest in cplonial affairs,