CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2036, 8 July 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY EIjECIR'O telegraph—copyrioht)

Rioter's Telkqkamb. London, July 6. Thirteen thousand nine hundred bales of wool have been offered for sale Saturday and to-day. The tone of the market is firm. Reportsfromthewheatgrowing districts show that the prospects of a good crop this year are favorable. Parliament reassembled yesterday after the adjournment. In the House of Lords, the Premier, Lord Salisbury, announced that Her Majesty's Government woujd resume the negotiations with Russia on the Afghan frontier question at the point to which they had been carried by Earl the late Foreign Secretary, and would fulfil- the promise made to the Ameer of Afghanistan that the retention of the Zulfikar Pass should be, assured to' him. Whatever settlement was arrived at between England and Russia, it was imperative to promptly and vigorously prepare for the protection 'of our' Indian frontier; and more than that, to stretch somewhat beyond it in order to prevent the tide of war breaking against it. Referring to the Egyptian question; Lord Salisbury stated that the matter was one which would require some timo to settle, .

The Earl of Carnarvon, the newlyappointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, assured the House that during his term of office he should endeavor firmly to administer the ordinary laws, of the country. >

Paris, July G. Further details with regard to the fighting in Annam show that the citadel at flue was attacked by fully 30,000 Annamites, and that a sanguinary conflict ensued before the Natives were repulsed. The French casualties were sixty killed, while their opponents lost ovei 1200 men. General Courcy has applied to the Government for reinforcements to be sent to him,