CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2170, 21 December 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT) Reuter's Telegrams. London, December 18. Mr Gladstone announces that the article published in yesterday's Pall Mall Gazette is without foundation. He denies the existence of any such scheme as that attributed to him by the writer of the article, and disavows any intention of acting in the manner indicated therein. Mr Gladstone takes the opportunity of stating that announcements in newspapers at present relative to the line of policy lie has determined to adopt are mere conjecture,'ap ho has not yet made known his intentions to anyone. The works of delimiting the RussoAfghan frontier have been brought to a standstill in consequence of the extremely divergent views of the representatives of England and Russia regarding the inclusion of Moruchak in the territory of the latter country. Loudon, December 19.

The New Zealand mails which left Auckland October. 13th, were delivered here yesterday via San Francisco, two days before due date, Bank rate of interest, 4 per cent; market rate, 3|per cent. Adelaide wheat ex store, 39a; ditto, off coast, 36s fid. N.Z, wheat ex store, 28s to 375, according to grade; ditto off coast, average 31s 7-id. Adelaide flour, ex store, 265. Tallow—Australian; fair average quality, beef 25s cwt, nu}ttop 26. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,550)000 quarters, being 20,000 quarters less than last week! , N.Z. frozen mutton is worth 4£d to 4|d per lb. The N.Z, Shipping Oo.'s Tongariro sailed from t'lymouth for Auckland and Wellington this afternoon, She will call at Teneriffe and the Cape of Good Hope en route. ' - '. The Tjmes to-day stated that Mr Gladstone has submitted to Her Majesty the Queen a plan for the of the. Irish Parliament, and further announces that Her Majesty has referred the scheme to her Ministers for approval. ' Constantinople, December 19. Moukhtar Pasha, who. was appointed Turkish Commissioner to. Egypt with Sir Henry Drnmmond Wolff, has not yet left left this city, the recent hostile encounter between the Soudanese Arabs and the British troops having rendered the AngloTurkish convention a dead letter the present. ' : : ' Adelaide, December 19, A most disastrous firo broke out yesterday at the warehouses of Mesprs Crooke ftpd JSrooker, p or fc Adelaide, the whole of v/l'iick completely destroyed.' Some other adjoining warehouses had a .narrow"escape,. .Messrs and Brooker estimate the 'd'amagis'"Lf: frocj £36,000 to £40,000, The loss is covered by insurance to'the aniount 'of £25,000, in whioh all the principal companies afe interested. ' ' l :