CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2099, 19 September 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY RI/EOTjtW TELEQRAPH—COPYRIGHT

REUTER's Telegrams,

Sydney, September 18. The following are the latest betting quotations for the .races to-morrow:— Metropolitan Stakes-Despot four to'one, Prince Imperial five to one, Acolyte eight to one, For the Australian Jockey Club Derby,. First Chester heads the betting at five to four.

London, September 17. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be L 14,300,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 42 per cent. Wool—At to-day's sales 11,700 bales were catalogued. The market was firmer in tone. _ 28,000 bales have be.en withdrawn since the opening of the' present series.

Adelaide,. September 18, M" BE, A, W<jpd', 'the'apcountant' tp tl}e Court of Insolvency, has absconded, An examination of his boob has resulted in the discovery of a deficiency of upwards of £IO,OOO, Tho police authorities hope to intercept Wood at New Zealand, to

which colony lie ia supposed to have proceeded,

London, September 18, 'His Eminence Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, is a passenger to Australia per the Orient Company's R,M,S, Liguria.. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, addressed a public meeting .of tho electors of East Gloucestershire last night at Cirencester. In the course of his speech he denied the existence of a compact'between the. Parnellite and .Conservative parties regarding the Home Rule question. Sir Michael expressed himself in favor of the extension oflocal self-government to the three "kingdoms.