CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1918, 18 February 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECTRO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. Reuter'b Telegrams, Sydney, February, 11, The intercolonial cricket match, Victoria versus New South Wales was concluded to-day, and resulted in a victory for tho Victorians by three wickets.

Melbourne, February 17, TheTe Anau sailed for tho Bluff this afternoon.

. London, February 16. Arrived at Plymouth—P. and O. steamship Valetta, from Melbourne (Ist January).

Fobruary 17, • Her Majesty the Qu.een is progressing favorably, the severity of $0 cold from which sho was suffering, having considerably lessened.

London, February 17. In connection with the Anglo-Russian Commission now sitting in Central Asia, from information received, Russia claims to fix the Afghan frontier at .the Parapamisan range of the Hindoo Khoosh, but that demand has been rejected by England,

Melbourne, Wednesday. . The National Mortgage Agency Company of N.Z., report of local grain market as follows:—Shipping Wheat is quiet at 3s 7d to 3s 8d; malting barley, slightly improved tendency, 5s to 4s 9d; New Zealand oat 3 are sluggish, feeding, 2s 9d to 3s 2d; milling, 3s Id to 3s sd; New Zealand oats in bond, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; me grass, 3s 8d to 4s 3d, with rather more enquiry at lowest prices. The same com- ' pany has sold kauri pine, ex Mary Blair, at the following prices Heivn logs,, per 100 ft, superior 12s to 13s; sawn flitches,' 13s 9d to 17s; sawn boards, lis ;to 3 inch, 13s 9d to'2Bs; dressed boards, \ inch, 22s 6d to. 23s 6d; deck planking 19s 6d; T. and G; Flooring four inch by eleven-eights of an inch, per 100 ft lineal, 8s 3d to 8s 6d. Kauri timber is in fair demand,