CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1939, 14 March 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

liY F.r,ECll!'C TBI,Ki)IUl'!(—OOPYIIIOHT. Ukuteu's Telegrams. Adelaide, March 13. Wheat is at Ss 4cl. The market is quiet, snd there is little doing. Town flour, £3: country brands, £7 ss; quotations nominal. . Freights to London: steamer, 25s to 30s; ditto sailing, 20s. Charters are unaltered. Lnxnox, Morcli 12. The New Zealand Shiping Company's R.M.S. Aorangi, fvom Wellington (February 14), arrival at Rio Do Janeiro on the '/Hi instant. TTer cargo of frozen mutton is in pod condition. The s'amc Company's R.M.S Ruanehu, from Plymouth (February 14), left Capetown on the 7th instant for Port Chalmers with the New Zealand Mails.

Consuls are to-day quoted at !)?]■, a decline of f. The bank rate of discount remains ot 4 per cent, The market rate is 3i per cent, The bank of England weekly returns show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be £17,400,000, an increase of £1,100,000 during the week. The portion of the reserve to liabilities remains at 47 per cent.

Colonial Breadstuff's Adelaide wheat, ex store, is unchanged at 3fis, and New Zealand at 28s to &k Adelaide flour, ex store, remains at 255,

Tallow Australian, average quality: Beef, 32s (3d ; mutton, 33s fid. Suakim, March 13th. Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Gravam commanding the expedition to operate in the direction of Berber and his staff and battalion of Grenadier Guards have arrived at this port. Loxdon, March 13th, In the House of Commons last night Mr Gladstone announced that the parleying has been renewed with Germany re garding Guinea, and is progressing well. The object of the negotiations is to fix the boundary between the English and German acquisitions on the north-east coast of New Guinea. The Premier added that he hailed most cordially the colonizing the projects with Germany, provided the latter country respected the righia of the Australian colonies.

In the House of Commons, Sir Evelyn Ashley, Under Colonial Secretary, replying to a question, said parleying "was proceeding with the view to England waiving her rights in the Society Islands and Port Tahiti in favor of France, in return for certain reciprocal advantages. The position taken up by England in the negotiations would be duly mindful of the interests of Australia,

Sir W. Gladstone, questioned in Parliament last night regarding the AngloRussian situation, replied that lie was unable to state anything that would improve tho knowledge of tho Houso on the Afghan question,