CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1666, 22 April 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegrams. ; |BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT,] MELBOURNE, April. 19. {||&uritius.advices to 4tli instant are to hand. Messrs Ireland, Eraser and Co, report of the. local sugar market that prices are unchanged, The clearances include 256 tons for Port Chalmers, , ■ . Obituary—Mr Summer, of Grice, Sumner and Co,, general merchants. LONDON, !1 ' . April 19. It has transpired that Major Sir Eyelyn Baring, Consul-general at Cairo, has been summoned to Louden by the first mail, . ■ It is understood' that the Government has now under' consideration important questions relative to the state of affairs in Egypt,: " ' DARMSTADT, \ April 19,' Majesty the Queenis suffering from' lumbago, and is Confined to her apartments. • • 'V HONGKONG, April 19.. 4. jier Supreme Council of the Em-' pire lias been appointed at Pekin, i The ministers who were recently']

publicly degraded on account of the want of success attending the Chinese arms in. Tonquin have been replaced by avowed supporters of an antiforeign policy. , ; ' Jl ' CAIRO, .■ April 19, In consequence of the outbreak of cholera at; Calcutta, quarantine lias been declared at the .Egyptian ports against vessels'arriving from India, CAIRO, ..April 18. Despatches are to hand irom General Gordon afc Khartounij- dated 9tli inst. He announces that a prominent merchant at El Obeid reports to him that the followers of the Malidi have been recently twice defeated by a force of loyal 'Arabs, and that the rebels are now surrounded. BOMBAY, ' , v April. 18, The police in the city, and at'other towns in India have' effected the seizure ot large,;quantities of:a printed procla-' mation, signed by the (Mklhi, urging the Mussulmans to join his ranks, , LONDON, April 18. Consols have advanced to 103|. The market rate. of discount i has declined If per cent, and now | below the bank rate. ,