CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2048, 22 July 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY ELECtR'.O TELEOJI4?R-^copyrigi]T) REUTER'S TEMQKAMS, London, July 20, Threo percent Consols, 99f, an advance New Zealand securities and Colonial breadstuffs are unaltered, The market ratg of discount.is f per cent, being , ' £aUow imchflnge^. ' July 20f 1)0 cholera epidemic is increasing in violence, ®i~t)io .deaths are again tecoming numerous, 10.5,0 gajjes having fyeeu reported to the sanitary- autljonj/ies yes.torday, of whom 800 ended fatally,' ' Melbourne, July 21, Telegrams received to-day report that the ship Juan de Costa (1753 tons fiaptain Oakes, which left this port on t|ie2M of Jujio, for Calcutta, with a Ci>rgo of horses for tjio Indian market, has been totally yraoked o$ Thursday Island, and HO horses were lost. The crew of the vessel .were saved. There i 3 a moderate inquiry for shipping ■wheat at 4s 2d to 4s 3d per buehel; malting barley is quiet at 4s to 4s 6d,' iNew Zealand oats are quiter; feed sorts are weaker at 2s lOd to 3s; and for milling descriptions, the quoted prices, 3s to 3s Id, are barely maintained, New Zealand oats under bond, 2b Id to 2s 3d. " The trial of the men implicated in the Simpson's Bank Robbery was concluded to-day. ' Millidge, Alcock and Fortune were each sentenced to six years' penal servitude, and McMahon, the, driver of the cart, convicted of aiding and abetting )vas sentenced to one year's hard labor.