CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2140, 7 November 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY RLECiR'O TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT) Risum's Teleouams. Melbourne, November 6. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held their usual weekly sale yesterday afternoon, when a fairly representative catalogue,of some 2800 bales was submitted to a large attendance of buyers. Competition was animated, but there was no change in the tone of the sales, prices ruling about the same as the previous week, A parcel of' greasy merino lambs' wool brought Is being the highest price obtained this season for that class of wool. Greasy merino sold up to Is Ofd, and scoured wool up to Is 3|d, while for a lot of. washed fleece Is was obtained. London, November 5.

The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day, give the proportion of reserve to liabilities at 39 per cent, the same as last week, The total reserve in notes and bullion is £11,300,000, or £500,000 below last week. Sydney, November 6. New Zealand wheat is firm at 3s bushel ; New Zealand oata 3d bushel lower 2s 2d, owing to the market being glutted. Maize, BGlbs, 3s 7d, a reduction of one penny. The continuance of intensely hot weather is aftecting the crops, and bad accounts generally are received from the country districts. ' Melbourne, November G. Clarence Whistler, the American ath-. lete, died to-day, Constantinople, Novembor 0.

The International Conference on the Bulgarian question held its first sitting yesterday, but the proceedings were merely of a'formal nature, and the sitting was adjourned until to-morrow. London, November 6.

The Standard to-day publishes a telegram from its spepial Egyptian correspondent stating that (1000 rebel Arabs are advancing on Wady Haifa.

Sir Philip Ounliffe Owen was entertained at a banquet last night, and in the course of a spiievli 'jhe warmly acknowledged the valuable assistance rendered him by the Agents-General of the various colonies, which lie stated had been the means of sepjjrjng 'he success of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, fle concluded by promising a hearty welcome to all colonists able to visit tlio Exhibition.