NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2378, 20 August 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(BY BLECTR'.O TELEGEAPH—COPYRIGHT)

Hooter's Teugbamb.

London, August 18. Colonial breadstuffs have advanced sixpence to.day, prices being, Adelaide wheaVex store, 36s 6d j New Zealand wheat, 28s to 34s 6d; Adelaide flour, ex store, 255; Australian tallow ia unchanged, ,

Melbourne, August 19, Moonshee is scratched for the Mel. bourne Cup. In betting for that race Trenton heads the list, at 5 to 1 against him,

Splendid rains have been experienced over the whole Australian continent, -. Telegrams from' Perth state that the. Official Report received there shows prospectors at Kimberley are getting two ounces of gold per day] London, August 19. The Indian and Colonial visitors now on a visit to Ireland proceeded yesterday from -Dublin to Powerscourt Castle, at Ennis, Kerry, the. seat of Viscount Powerscourt, where they were entertained at lunch by his lordship. The party afterwards drove to Bray, the-seat of the Earl of Meath, where a banquet waa given in their .honor. Lord Brabazon, the eldest son of tho Earl, presided, In a speech' he' dwelt upon the necessity of the eternal union of England and the Colonies, Sir Saul Samuel, Agent General for New South Wales, in replying to the toast proposed, said tho assistance which had been afforded by New douth Wales in the Soudan would be renewed by tho Colonies if required, and would have the best offect upon the movement for the federation of the Empire. Per Morchant Shipping Underwriters Association:—Arrived—Norman McLeod, from Lyttelton, 10th May.

' Adelaide, August 19 Arrived—Orient Company's Iberia, with English mails dated 16th July.