CABLEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 296, 21 December 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[BY ELECTBIO TELEQKAPH.-COPXBIOHT.]

[reuteb's telegrams.]

London Wool Sales, i London, December 18,-Forty thousand rsja^^rbToiAoS Elles, incfuding 21,000 held over from last Bales.

England and.Egypt. Constantinople, December 19.-Mukh-tar Paaha, who was appointed 1 urUisn Commissioner to Egypt with.Sir Henry D. Wolff, has not yet loft this city, the recent hostile encounters between the Soudanese Arabs and the British troops haying rendered the Anglo-Turkish Conventiona dead letter for the present.

Afghan Frontier Commission Disagree. The work of delimiting the Rubbo-Afghan frontier has been brought to a standstill in consequence of the extremely divergent views of tho representatives of England and Russia regarding, the wohaion of Meruchak, in the territory of the lattor country.

London Wool Sales.

Forty thousand bales arrived up to today for tho next series of colonial wool auctions, which commence on January IJ. Tho probable quantity to bo offered is 200,000 bales, including 21,000 held over from last sale.

The Australian Federal Council,

Mr J, B. ThuratOD, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, will attend tha mooting of the Federal Council.

Sugar Production In Oueensland. A cargo of Drysdales1 Sugar from Queens, land has averaged £16 per ton. The beat of it brought £18.

Servia Desirous of Peace,

Servia has promised not to renew the war, or to take any stops that will provent a union with other countrios.

Another Largo Firo at Adelaide.

Adelaide, December 19.—A most disastrous tiro broko out yesterday at tho warehouses of Messrs Crooke and Brooker, Fort Adelaide, the wholo of which was completely destroyed. Some other adjoining warehouses had a narrow escape. Messrs Crooke and Brooker estimate the damage at £36,000 to £40,000. The loss is covered by an insurance to tho amount of £25,000, in which all the principal companies are interostod. Tho Australian Fodoral Council. Melbourne, this day —The Hon. Jas. Service, Premier, and the Hon. Graham Berry, Colonial Secretary, will represent the colony of Victoria at the forthcoming Federal Council at Hobarfc. The Hon. G. F. Korferd Will accompany them as legal adviser.