CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2054, 29 July 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(by elkctrw telegraph—copyright i Keuter's Telegrams.! ' MELBOt/USE, July 28. , Thirteen members of the permanent . Artillery Force stationed at Queenscliffe have been arrested for acts of insubordination, which occurred last week. Six of the ringleaders . were tried by Court •Martial to-day, when the Court refused to hear counsel, who declared the Court was illegally constituted. The prisoners, when called upon, refused to plead. The manager of tha National Mortgage

and Agency' Company (Limited) of New Zealand reports on the local market as follows Shipping wheat is firm at 4s 2d to 4g .'.3d per bushel;, malting barley, steady, 4s to 4s 6d. New Zealand oats, feed sorts, are in less demand, and . are occasionally easier, 2s lOd to 3s ; ditto, milling, dull and heavy, 3s to 3s 3d ; New Zealand oats under bond,- 2s Id to 2s 2d. Hobart, July 28th, The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's s.s. Tainui arrived here to-night from London, and sails for New Zealand at daylight to-irforrow, London, July 28. The Government is in receipt of a despatch from Brigadier General Grenfell, commanding the Egyptian Army, in which he states that the Mahdi has been succeeded by Khalifa Abdoolah, In the House of Commons last night, the Hon R. Bourke, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced, in reply to a question, that Her Majesty's Government •is taking steps to relieve the beleaguered garrison of Kassala',