CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 302, 18 September 1882, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

- —^ By Telegraph. — Eeuter's Copybighx. Beckived 18/9, 1 p.m. LONDON, September 14. The total reserve in coin' and bullion in the Bank of England, is £11,200,000, being J5200,000 above the reserve last week. "' At to-day's wool sale, a fair demand was experienced. The catalogue com* prised 10,800 bales. 18,250 bales have been withdrawn from sale since opening of the series. ■ r , The hoaieward Australian and .New Zealand mails, wbidi left Auckland on August 16th, and were being conveyed from New York in the Guion Line steam* ship Alaska, have been burned, a fire having occurred in ttye mail room aboard that vessel. A number of registered letters were among the mails destroyed. The Australians have commenced a match to-day, at Manchester* ,. against eleven representing the North of England. The Home team's first innings closed for a total of 245 runs. The Australians we're all disposed of for 110, ' and l>eiug 135 behind their opponents, followed on their innings, "and when stumps were drawn for the^ day.-, ,b.ad ( put together 59 for the loss of three wickets. ! ' '„,,,. , September \&. Consols have advanced £, and are again at par. ■ . •, , >„ New Zealand securities are unchanged at last quotations, viz., 5 percent. (10-40) loan, lOs\, ex dividend : 5 per cent. (1889) loanj lOGi ; 8£ per cent. (1 870 4P04)' loan, M>l£. , Colonial bredcjstii'ffa Aiftfe eofi^^d a decline of Is. per quarter. To, ? !day'£ (| 'qusatipns,j ( w-pr- Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 475. ; New Zealand wheat, 455. to 465. ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 84s. 1 T.heCfctal"s[antitr W3&&tfgO&t for Great Britain is 2,180,000 quarters, or 40,000 quarters more than at this time last week; ' • , , •' • >'■ \^ AustntliaD'tetoJtow oontiptiftft flttn at •

1 wire 1 catalogued. ' 'The 5 m&lse't '^as Steady, but the demand' Wad riot active. Scoured wools are dull. ,i BERLIN, September 14. Prince Bismarck has been ordered by his medical advisers to totally abstain from all (public business. SYDNEY, This Day. There are twelve entries for the race for the rowing championship, including Trickett, Rush, Laycock, Pearce, and Largan. The entries are open till Wednesday to enable Hearn and others to compete. JAbgus Specials.] LONDON, September 12. The Austral's cargo of frozen mutton has improved in the market and has now been cleared at an advance of id. per pound on first sales. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales returned from the Continent on Wednesday. He is ■ greatly unproved in health.

' fBEUTER'S AOENCY.I LONDON, September 16. The English troops were within a mile from Tel-el-Kebir when their advance was discovered, and the Egyptians at once commenced a heavy rifle fire. The British reserved their fire, and carried the defensive works at the point of the bayonet, after a tremendous slaughter of the enemy. Arabi and Toulba were arrested for inoiting the populace to plunder and burn down the city. Later. Sir Garnet TVolesley was received at Cairo with open arms by the populace.

k • [PER ffNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 '- ■ WELLINGTON, September 17. Messrs. Dick and Bryce will leave shortly for the north. The former goes on an official visit through the North Mand, and Mr. Bryce meets Tawhiao, and will endeavor to make satisfactory arrangements for opening the country. DUNEDIN, This Day. t The 'name of the photographer wlio was poisoned was Herman Bruce. The j verdict was poisoned by chloral, hut no evidence to show how administered. Fifty-eight nominations were received on Saturday night for the Dunedin Gup. Last year, the number was thirty-eight. The election for the Waimate Eoad Board took place on Saturday, when Mr. D. Hughes was elected by a majority of ten over Mr. G. Inkster. The numbers were 84 to 24. Speaking before the Melbourne Pros* bytery, the Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, 6ald that he was convinced that the Australian continent had a great future before it, and was destined to have a population of perhaps 100,000,000. The federated union of these colonies would certainly be a near event. He trusted that a free Church and a free State would be contemporaneous.

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Waimate saw mill advertises for teams for carting timber. Mr. £. H. Nolan and Co. soil stock at Manaia, on Thursday, 21st. inst. Fencing notice is given by Mr. Shearer, Waimate. Normanby Town Board ask tenders for forming Stafford-street and part of Ketemarae road. Mr. Newton King sells stock at the Waiwakaiho on Thursday. Sir William Wallace and Eedeemer stand this season. Sections at Oeo and Fihama are advertised for sale. Mr. H. Lanwick invites tenders for bush felling. Mr. Freeman E. Jackson's next sale will be on 22nd inst. First entries are published. The Wakatu is detained by the underwriters for overhaul. She leaves the slip at Wellington to-day.

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