NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3083, 18 December 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

. London, December,lS. At the wool auctions to-day 10,000 bales- of wool wero catalogued. As compared with the closing rates atthe October sales .greasy merino combing show an advance of an £ to Id. Inferior Bcoured has improved Id, arid superior 1 jd. For crossbred, from id to-Id increase is reported, and'for superior lambs' -Jd additional is received. Prices for inferior and,faulty sorts, are unchanged. The next series open on 29th Janu'ary. Two thousand seven hundred bales of sheepskins have, been sold at a general advance of a {to id. 90,000 bales were sold, including 3000 purchased' for tran. shipment to America. Fifty thousand bales wore held over. . - Suakim, December 15. ' Further information as' .to the defeat of Emin Bey and others state that the Madhi has captured a. lari»e quantity of ivory and ammunition, and that lie has sent the Egyptian prisoners to Khartoum. Ono of the white nien escaped, hut nothing is known as to tho fate-of the others, The letter received from Osmari Digna ia in reply to certain enquiries made of him by Major Rundlo in August last, This story is widely but Emin Bey 's Belief Comits genuineness. that Englaiu^fflrae^l^^Hete evaoiiation oftlieSoadaiiipßiiild further pledge herself to; abstain from meddling with it in future." - December 16.

The enemy are answering the shelling from the forts' by a hot musketry fire, but so far little harm has been done. Two military aorouauts havs started from the city to reconnoitre' the enomy's position, and ascertain its strength. London, December 15. In his statements regarding the attentions of the British Government, Mr Goschen said in any event Suakim would havo to be relieved without delay, General Grerfell's discretion was quite unfettered. December 16, ' Mr Gladstone in his speech at Limehouse, referring to the Soudan difficulty, said it was hopeless to attempt to conquer that country. It is believed tliat Stanley and Emin Bey liave been captured by the Mahdi, and are now prisoners at Khartoum. It is stated that they are manacled, but otherwißo fairly well treated. It is announced that Jfr Sidney j Cart Glyn, Mr J. A. Ewan (ot Sargood, Ewan & Co), and Mr David Murray, of Adelaide, will join tlie London Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand. Washington, December 14. The House of Bepresentatives has referred Mr Buteworth's motion empowering the President to invite England and Canada to negotiate for the admission of any portion of the Dominion of Canada into the Uir'tel States, to the Foreign Affairs Committee,' Paris, December 15, The Panama Interest Bill being referred to a hostile committee, Baron de Lesseps and three of his colleagues on the Board have resigned, , Three liquidators have been appointed. Tho company suspended payment on Friday. • • Darmstadt, Deoember 16. Obituary Prince Alexander of Hesse. Buenos Ayres, December 16, The National Congress has unanimously adopted, .the ; Fresh Beof Export Bounty Bill of eight million dollars. '