CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 22 August 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY EIiECTRW TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.J Rbuter's Telegrams. London, August 20. Consols remain at IOOf, and New Zealand securites at yesterdays quonations. Adelaide wheat, ex store, remains it 395, and New Zealand ditto at 34s 0 40s j off coast cargo of Adelaide pheat bave changed hands at 3s 3d. Adelaide flour have changed hands' at 15 3d, Adelaide flour ex store, 275. Australian tallow, average quality ieef 355; ditto mutton, 355, At the wool sale to-day, 10,000 ales were offered. .Prices are firmly lainfcained. Fine Pott Philip and reasy wools are a |d to Id higher, Hongkong, August 21. Intelligence is to hand from Pekin bat the flag at the French Embassy 1 that city has been lowered, and that lie protection of the French subjects aaident there has been] confided to Russian legation, 1

London,. August 21. ft It is now announced, that 'the dis- ci ease from which the death at Brimingham occurred was sporadic and not :s] Asiatic cholera. n Per Merchant Shipping and Under- tl writers' Association London, Aug. 20. Arrived—Ship Invercargill, from tt Lyttleton (May 27). a Sydney, Friday. , Received August 22, 11.45 a.m.— 0 Arrived, yesterday—The Hauroto, from ri Wellington. ? In the Legislative Council last even- j 1 ' ing, after debate the Crown • Lands ' Bill was read a second time without J: division. ... J; The race ifor the Hawkesbury guineas yesterday was won by Bargo, 1 with lolanthe second. 0 n Cairo, Angust 20. n The Nile is falling steadily, and the jj passage of the cataracts, by which it was proposed to convey the British „ expedition to Khartoum in boats, is a now impassable.. It is. believed that j, the despatch of the proposed expedi- r tion, via the Nile Yalley .and Dongola. t , will be abandoned, and that the troops 0 will be despatched from Souakim across the desert and by way of Berber to Khartoum. * r