WOOL SALES. A POSTPONEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18, 23 January 1911, Page 7

WOOL SALES. A POSTPONEMENT.

By Telegraph.— Prejo Association Copyright. LONDON, 21st January. The wool seles have been postponed owing to fog. Yesterday's sales included "R.S. over T.," top price 12£ d, average price lOd. PRIVATE ADVICES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from its London house, under date 19th. inst. : — "Wool. — The sales progress rii-mly, but there is little American demand for crossbred wool." FOUND DEAD. AN ACCIDENTAL E2IPLOSION. Bj Telegraph.-Fress Association.-Copyrigut. (Received January 23, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A man named Duke, who was found, shot dead at 'Oberon, 120 miles wesi. of Sydney, carried a p^a riHe in hi& swag. H© was apparently putting his swag down when the conpussion • exploded the cartridge. RIOTS IN MAURITIUS. BUSINESS PLACES WRECKED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyiight. PORT LOUIS (Mauritius), 21st Jan. The political dis'tuibances in the island resulted in the mob wrecking several business places and newspaper offices. The rioters were dispersed without recourse to arms, but two fatalities are reported. The excitement is now increasing. DECLARATION OF LONDON. FURTHER PROTESTS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 21st January. The Daily Mail publishes a leading article and two columns of special news in support of the Commonwealth's protect against the Declaration of London. The Swansea Chamber of Commerce has carried a resolution of protest against the Declaration of London. The Chamber of Shipping, representing nine-tenths of British shipping, will shortly discuss condemnatory resolutions. Already several individual chambers have protested against or refused to approve the Declaration. STORM IN THE CASPIAN. BATOUM FLOODED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. ST. i'iiiifißSßUllG, 21st January. A heavy s'tovru in the Caspian Sea undermined an embankment at Batoum, causing a Hood, which invaded the High School and threatened the prison, necessitating the removal cf the convicts to a place of safety.