NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2477, 15 December 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(by ri,ecib'o tb legbaph—copyiugjit Reutkb's Telegrams. Sydney, December 14. JPwo bodies from tho wreck of the Keilawarra have been recovered, and a quantity of wreckage. Melbournn, December 14. The manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand reports as follows of the local market:—Wheat is firm, at 5h Id to 5s 3d por bushel; barley, slow of sale, 3s 9d to 4s 3d. There is a moderate inquiry for New Zealand oats; feed sorts, 2s 9d to 2s lid; milling sorts are in fair demand at 2s lid to3s;NewZealand oats under bond are selling at 2s to 2s 3d. Rangoon, December 13. Genera] Sir Frederick Roberts has started from Mandator for Bhamo, Brigadier-General Low is proceeding with six columns to attack the rebels under the chief Boshway, who are concentrated in the Minhu District. News has been received from Upper Burmah that an engagement between a British force and the rebels has taken place near Pnkoka, Tho Bombay Lancers, who formed part of the British squadron, charged the enemy, killing 200 and wounding many others. London, December 14, It has been officially notified to the Foreign office that M. Flourins has been appointed French Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Agents-General consider it improbable that the Prince and Princess of Wales will accept the invitation of the Victorian Government to visit Melbourne for the inaugnral ceremony in connection with the Centennial Exhibition of 1888,