CABLEGRAMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2228, 24 February 1886, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

(BY ELECTRTG TELEGRAPII—-COPYRIGHT) Recter's Telegrams,

Londojj, February 22, The Bank rates of interest, is 2 per sent, ijhe market rate being 1| per cent, pr | per cent lower. JJje wpo) is dull is tone, so far '120,000' bale? 'w? to hand for next sale.

Mails, ex Massillia, fr.om Melbourno, January 14th W?re doljyeve.d to-day via Naples,

Cape Town, February 22, The lonic sailed last night for New Zealand ports.

_ Sydney, February 23, Tho Legislative Assembly met to-day, but as Sir Patrick Jennings had not completed the task of forming a Ministry, the House adjourned until to-morrow.

Slbmodkne, February 23. The Tarawa arrived from tho Bluff this evening; ' She returns' tp jjf'ew Zealand on Thursday. ' : An enquiry into the striking of the Waihora near the EfetPne nqjnt wiil bo opened to-morrow. London, February 23. 1 Lord Randolph Churchill adressed -a public meeting at Belfast last night. His Lordship was accorded a most enthusiastic reception. In the course of his speech Lord Bandolp fervidly appealed to the men of Ulster to resist to the utmost any attempt to separate Ireland from Great Britain,

Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association—Arrived, Claribel, from Auckland, September 19th, In the House of Commons last night tho Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, stated that the France-German agreement regarding the disposal of the New Hebrides in no way affected tho Anrio-French agreement. He added that the Australian colonies had forwarded despatches strongly objecting to any abrogation of the latter agreement, •and concluded by announcing that the Government was corresponding with the .yatjop cqlpnios upon tljo subject,