ENGLISH CABLEGRAMS.
| REUTER's SPEdIAX CABLEGRAMS. I LONDON, May 6. The wool sales opened to-day. 7883 bales were catalosrued. Port Philip sorts preponderated. The attendance was large and the competition keen. Prices range about the same as at last series At the concluding rates the. cross-breds were very firm. Mr Isaac Butt, M.P. for Limerick, is dead. . News from Afghanistan states that the frontier tribes offer to place the passes of the Hindoo-Koosh under British protection, themselves becoming subjects of the Queen. LONDON, May 7. Cape Town news has been received to April 23rd. Movements are preparatory to the British advance, whioh takes place in a fortnight. The House of. Lords have received a petition from Sydney prayhig them to pass the Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. The House of Lords throw out, on the socond reading, the bill for legalising with a Deceased Wife's Sister. The Prince of Wales supported the bill, and presented a petition in its favour. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 7. The Russians have evacuated Roumelia. LONDON, May 8. At the wool sales, on tho 6th and 7th, 17,600 bales were offered. Cross-breds show a slightly improved tendency. Consols, 98|.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1073, 10 May 1879, Page 2
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