CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 16 June 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY ELEOIR'.C telegraph—copyright)

Reuter's Telegrams,

Melbourne, Juno 15. An application was made yesterday for a new trial in the Malpas divorce case, but the Court refused to grant the application.

London, June 12. Tho total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,760,000 quarters or 130,000 less than last week. Prime New Zealand mutton 5{ to s£. At to-day's wp'ol sale 10,500 bales wore catalogued, prices being still irregular. All descriptions of infereriqr and faulty wools are now about Id. beloiv last sale. Teneriffe, June 12, The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Ruapehu, sailed last night for New Zealand via the Cape.

London, Jund 13,

Tenders are invited'on behalf of the Government of Western Australia for a loan of L 500,000, at 4 per cent.. The minimum p. ice has been fixed at L 97105, and the tenders will be opened on the 19th instant. .'-'"■

The Sanitary Conference has adjourned until November next Bombay, June 13. A series of fresh earthquake'shock's are reported from Cashmere, and several hundred persons have lost their -lives in the falling buildings,,

Paris, June 13. The Commission, for the intemationalisation of the Suez Canal, which has been sitting here for two months past, has oopplyded its labors, The main question of the control of the canal stjl remains unsettled, however, .the matter having been referred to the European Powers.

Adelaide, June 15. Mr Downer has succeeded in forming a new Ministry, which, is composed as follows:-Premier and Attorney-General, Mr Downer; Treasurer, Mr Newland ; Chief Secretary, MrSpence; Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr Rowe; Minister of Public Works, Mr Darling; Minister of Education, Mr Cockburn. Sydney, June 16th. It has been arranged that the landing and formal reception of the contingent shall take place on Tuesday, the 23rd hist,, and not on Monday, as at first proposed. The steamer Callow still remains fast on Evans rocks, and her breaking up is expected at any time should heavy weather come up.