TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1359, 1 October 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN [SXDTXB’S TELEGRAMS —COPTBIOHT.] LONDON MARKETS. London, September 29. At the colonial wool auctions to-dttf 13,300 bales were offered. The tone of the market was quiet Adelaide flour is selling at 34s per sSolbs; New Zealand wheat, highest, 335, lowest, 28s. Australian beef tallow is 23s fid per cwt, mutton tallow 25s 6d.

THE EASTERN CRISIS. General Kaulbars, the Russian diplomatic agent, has urged the people of Bulgaria to put confidence in the Car, and denounced the Regency. AN EXPLANATION. Paris September 29. The portion of M. de Freycinct’s speech in which he states that the French Government is determined to retain those colonies which they already possess is generally constructed to refer to Madagascar, not the New Hebrides. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. Ottawa, September 29, In the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, a credit vote ot was proposed towards "the fund which Is being raised to establish the Imperial Institute, London.

THE BULGARIAN SITUATION. Fzsth, September 30. M. Tiza, President of the Council of Ministers, has announced that Hungary cannot permit any foreign occu* pation of or protectorate over Bulgaria, A U S TRAL lAN. THE MARINE CONFERENCE * Sydnby. September 90. The Mercantile Marine Conference has been adjourned for a month, pending the settlement of a question which employees have agreed to submit to arbitration.

NEW JUDGE. Mkubookns, September 30. Mr A’Beckett has been appointed to the vacant Puisne Judgeship.

VICTORIAN REVENUE RETURNS. October L The revenue of this colony daring the quarter ended yesterday amounted to £* .530,000, being an increase of as compared with the September quarter of last year, but below the quartet's proportion of the Treasurer’s estimate for the current year.