CABLEGRAMS.
[by elecmo telegraph—copyright. Reuter's Telegrams. London, August 26. Consols remain at IOOf. New Zealand securities are al last quotations viz;—s per cent 10-40 loan, 105|; 5 per cent 1889 loan 105J; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 99|, ex div, j '4 percent inscribed stock, 102. Colonial Breadstuffs. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 38s; Adelaide flour, 27; New Zealand wheat, 34s to 38s. Tallow.- * Average Australian beef and mutton, 35s 6d, Wool.-At to-day's auction 11,800 bales we're catalogued. The market continues firm. London, August 27, General Lord Wolseley will leave for Egypt almost immediately, and on arrival will assume the supreme command of the British troops in that country.
Berlin, August, 26,
It has transpired that the announcement that Dr Busch, the UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, was about to proceed to Egypt was : without foundation; but it is 'officially announced that Doctor Heinrich Karl Brugsch, the eminent philologist and Egyptologist, has been entrusted with a special mission to Teheran, Melbourne, August 15.
Arrived, this afternoon— Union steamship Rotomahana, from the Bluff. Melbourne, Thursday.
Received Aug. 28,1.10 p.m.—Poppens, the absconder, will be conveyed back to Wellington by tbe steamship Rotomahana, leaving to-day. London, August 26.
The cricket match at Brighton was concluded to-day. The Cambridge eleven in their second innings were only able to put together 94, and the Australians thus won by 141' runs. General Lord Wolseley and Earl Northbrook, Secretary of State for India, start for Egypt on Sunday next, Hongkong, August 26.
Reports to hand state that fully a thousand Chinese were killed and over three thousand wounded during tho bombardment of tbe Eoochow arsenal by the Erench fleet. Cairo, August 26.
Major Kitchener reports from Dongola that spies have informed him that Gordon obtained a decisive victory over the rebels who surrounded Khartoum on the eleventh instant, and that during the engagement two prominent rebel leaders were killed,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1772, 28 August 1884, Page 2
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