CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2166, 9 December 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY ELECTRO TELEGRAPH—GOPYMGU'

Reuteu's Telegrams. Melbourne, December 8, The manager of tho National Mortgage and Agency Company of New. Zealand reports on the local grain market as follows:—Shipping wheat meet with steady but not active demand at 3s lOd to 4s per bushel, Malting barley shows no improvement, and remains at 3s to 3a 9d, N.Z. oats—feed sorts, rather more enquiry at reduced prices of 2s lOd to 2s lid; milling description, fair demand at 2s lid to 3s; N.Z, oats under bond, 2s to ?s 2d, London, December 7. Three per cent Consols have fallen to 99| ex diy. N,Z. Btook and produce remain at last quotations. . London, December 8.

• in view of the unsettled state of affairs in Upper Egypt, three battalions of British troops are under orders to proceed to Wady Haifa. It is generally understood that whatever is the final result of the elections, Lord .Salisbury wpl pef; Parliament and submit a programme of &'reform.? contemplated by the Conservative party, December 7. The N.Z, Shipping Co.'s R.M.S. Tongariro, fipm Auckland (October 20th), arrived at Plymouth on Saturday night. Her cargo of frozen meat is reported to be in good p ( qnstipn.