CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2016, 15 June 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY KLECIBTO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT'

Renter's Telegrams, London, June 12. It is announced that Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the resignation of Mr Gladstone and his colleagues, and that Lord Salisbury, who is at present a? Balmoral, has been summoned to undertake the formation of a new Ministry. Paris, June 13. _ News is to hand from Theirs, a town in the department of the Puy-de-Dome, of a shocking accident which occurred there to-day. A large number of people were assembled in the local courthouse, when thestaircascof the buildingsuddenly collapsed, precipitating its occupants to the ground, Fully 200 persons are known to have been killed or seriously injured by the disaster. Madrid, June 12, Reports from the south of Spain show that the cholera is increasing in virulence and hasalrauly extended over a considerable area,

London, June 11, The Bank of England weekly returns, published to-day, show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 52 percent., or 1 per cent above last week, while the reservehas declined £200,000 to £17,700,000. '

At the hide'auction to-day the demand was'only limited, and prices were | lower. At to-day's wool sale, 11,700 bales were cataloguedj the market being weaker. Low qualities of crqsskedwpols are about the same as at the last sales; 71,200 bales have been offered to date, of Vhjcij 12,000 have been withdrawn, Adelaide, June 13, The following items of Mauritius cQinmercial news are taken froin Messrs Ireland, Fraser and Oq.'a Circular, to hand per Messaged steamer Oaledonien, which arrived bore this morning:— Mauritius, May 28, The total yield of the new season's orop is estimated at from 100,000 to 110,000 tons. The month's clearances for New Zealand ports are— Dunedin, 300 tons; and Wellington, 200 tons. The total exports to New Zealand during the season have been 8000 tons, and the stock now in hand is 17,000 tons. Exchange, 60 days' Bank credits on New Zealand, 13£ percent premium; Australia, 15 per cent."