NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2377, 19 August 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(BY ELEOTRW TELEGRAPH—OOPTBIQHT)

Reuter's TELEQRAMB.^

(Received 18th, 8.30 p.m.) London,-August 17.

The cricket match Australians r Gloucestershire whb resumed to-day at Cheltenham. The Home team in their first innings made 74, and the' Australians in their second innings 119. The Home team's second innings closed with 3 wjckets'down .f0r.58.

Consols declined one-eighth to-day, and are quoted at 101|. The market rate of discounkhas advanced to 2 per cent, HDii is now J below bank rata. New' Zealand securities are unchanged Colonial breadstuffs remain in haud.at last quotations', ' namely, Adelaide wheat, ex store, 36a; New Zealand, 28s to 34s j Adelaide flour, ex store, 24s 6d. Tallow,—Australian average quality, beef, 24s 6d; mutton, 275. • Calcutta, August 17.

Jt is announced from Simla that tho. British Commission for the delimitation of the Afghan frontier will returtv to India next month via Cpbul. ; . London. August 18. The title assumed -by Sir R. ACross, Secretary of State for India in his elevation to the peerage is Baron (Jvosa instead, of Viscount Warrington, as previously Minuted, ; , It is officially announced Gpyern-. menthas not decided upon tho immediate withdrawal of the frontier commision, that negotiations will continue with the Russian Government and it is intended that the commission should return to India in the autumn,

Sydney, August 18,

Mr Dibbs has resigned his position in the' Cabinet as Colonial Secretary, owing to a difference of opinion with liia colleagues in reference to the proposed establishment of a staliafcica department..