CABLEGRAMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 10 March 1886, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

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Hedter'bTelepajjs. Constantinople, March 8. Tho Conference of Ambassadors of the various powers represented at the Porte to consider the Roumeliari question, will hold its first sitting on Saturday noxt. BjAKGoon, March 8. . Intelligence has been received by Genoral Prendergaat at Mandalay that a force of some nine thousand rebels have surrounded the British .position at Yemether, the gamsoppj which place only number three hundred inon,-' General ■Prendergast, on-receipt of the news, .called up a reinforcement, and is now jadvanfl/ng jtp the relief of the Beleaguered ; Br^shjtr,qopß..' ; ""* '"' ; " Syps&Y, March ?. . Mr Sutton, Postmaster General,, and J Mr Benwick, whtob riftta was' dppWaSi on &s&%}

re-election, ■ headed the poll for their respective constituencies. ' , : The Government are providing Relief Works for the unemployed. Melbourne, March 9.' The To Anau left for the Bluff this afternoon,

Numerous farewoll addresses will be 1 presented to Bishop Moorhouse on his departure for England, among them being one which it is proposed to accompany by a public gift of twelve hundred pounds, lists for which are still open. Bishop Moorhouse will sail' on 18tli March. Brisbane, March 9. Tho; Queensland Government have decided to decline witeving into an agreement for the subsidi.iiiig.iif the Eastern •Extension Company's cabja under the conditions proposed by Mr .John Pender for further reductions upon the tolographic tariff. London, March 8, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has signified his acceptance of the invitation to preside at the farewell dinner to be given to Mr Murray Smith, Earl Granville, Socretary for the Colonies, has also intimated his intention of beine; present, Rio de Janeiro, March 7. Tho Doric left last night for London. Her cargo'of frozen meat is in good condition, London, March 9. In the House of Commons last night the Bill dealing with the Crofter question waa read a second time. , Melbourne, March 9. The manager of the National Mortgage Agency Company New, Zealand Limited reports oil tho local market as follows : Shipping wheat, strong, 4s 2d >to 4s 3d per bushel; Maltitw barley, quite, 3s 9d to 48 Id; New Zealand feed oats in fair demand from.2s 10 to 3s;' milling- descriptions a moderate enquiry, 3s Id to 3s 3d; New Zealand oatß, under-bond, 2s 3dto2s6d.