[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wool Sales. London, May 29.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1239, 8 June 1880, Page 3

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wool Sales. London, May 29.

Of 313.000 bales wool catalogued at the sales 15,000 have been withdrawn. These has been a smaller attcud nice of foreign buyers at the sales. The better qualities of combing are blightly hegher.

Loxdox, May 31. The Daily News states that the Grand Vizier of Turkey and other Mini-tei s are preparing 1 to resist the demands of the European Poweis with tW respect to the fulfilment of tnc Berlin Treaty. The unsatisfactory condition of affairs at Burmah has culminated in an cmeute at Mandalav.

! London, May 27. Earl Cowper, the new Vicory fur Lcland, arrived at Dublin, and w.b accrded a most enthusiastic inception. The appointment of the Marquis of Ripon to the important position oi Viceroy of India has provoked a strong expression of opinion on the part of the Opposition Press. The Marquib has been charged with being a Jesuit. The virulence of the attacks has induced Mr Gladstone to publicly contradict this statement. The Premier denies emphatically that the Marquis of Ripon is a member of that religious body.

Lo>"DOX, Jane 1. Strong pressure has been brought to bear upon the Porte by the representatives of the Great Powers with a view to enforcing the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin. The latest intelligence from Afghan is of a disquieting nature. Ayoob Khan lias declared his inteution of co-operating with the hostile tribes of the South, against the British. He has left Herat with a numerous force, for the puryo&e of marching upon Caudahar. Preparations have been made by General Payne to resist the attack.

The Scottish Language. — The Scottish language is no more a dialect of the English than the English is a dialect of the Scottish ; but they are both dialects of the same ancestral tongue. Doric Greek was not a dialect ot lonic, but both were dialects of the Old Greek language, each having well-marked peculiarities of its own, although these peculiarities were not so great as to render them mutually unintelligible, and thus to constitute them distinct languages. The same may be said, and with equal truth, of the Scottish and English dialects. As languages they are identical, but as dialects they are distinct and independent of each other. Very cold water should not be taken in largo quantities by horses just after they have been driven and are warm. Let them cool off. The quickest way to expel foul air from a well is to heat a bar of iron red hot and lower it down into the water ; the sudden formation of steam is effectual.