CABLEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 572, 26 August 1880, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

(From the Press Association.] Melbourne, August 23. Captain Thomson of the 'barque Tochraque, has been sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment for neglecting j to rescue the ' crew of the Catamaran, in the Java seas, whilst on her voyage to this port. .;•. : ' Petitions have been lodged against the elections t of Dr Madden. ..-.for. Sandridge,. and Mr. D. Gillies for Rodney. August 21. At the wool sales to-day 10,700 bales were offered, making a total of 48,500 bales catalogued since the opening. Tone of the sale animated. Cross-breds fd. to Id. lower than last sales. .■'"'-.■ In the House of Commons the Hares and Kabbits Bill passed through Committee. Subscription lists opened for £35,000, sis per cent Auckland debentures. St. Petersburg, August 20. The Supreme Commission, which was appointed by the Czar, in March last, for the maintenance of peace of .Russia, has now been abolished. General Loris Melikhoff, who was the head of the Commission, has been appointed Minister <.£ the Interior. Calcutta, August 19. Reported yesterday that Ayoub Khan had attacked the citadel of Candahar and been repuked is now proved devoid of foundation. August 22. General Stewart has arrived and is quartered at Jelala'bad. General Sir Frederick S. Roberts passed through Ghuznee unopposed. Eoport says that Mahomed jSassim

kept hovering on his flank during the inarch. General Pbayre started with his relief force from Khojiu-k. Pckin, August 19 Chung How, late Chinese Ambassador to St Petersburg, concluded the Kuldja Treaty "with Russia, and was impeached, and afterwards reprieved, has now been finally released by the Chinese Government.

'Power the ex—bushranger and former ! associate of Ned Kelly, is now in a declining state of health at Pentridge. Speaking of Kelly he says that i.e always prevented him from shedding blood, as he wculd have otherwise have done on one or two occasions. Power admits that Kelly possesses considerable personal courage; but he was always of opinion that "in extreme danger Kelly would be wanting in and discretion sufficient to carry him out of his difficulties. On one occasion, when they were surrounded by the police, close to the late Dr How's station, Mount Battery, near Mansfield, and there appeared but little hope of escaping, Kelly proposed to surrender, when Povrer told him if he did he would shoot him on the spot. In attempting to escape, Power's horse was hit in the flank by a spent ball from the police, but he and Kelly succeeded in escaping to the ranges. A gentiumak at Port Darwin, writing to a friend in Adelaide (says the 'Register,') prognosticates a rush of Chinese to the Ncrthern Territory next season, owing to the discovery of such a valuable alluvial goldfield at the Margaret River. He says ; "As the Chinese are doing so well on the alluvial, there will be a rush next wet season. One party of Cantonese got 4000ozs. last week, and some very heavy nuggets are being turned out. One found on the 28th June was valued at £llsO. There is every reason to believe that mining will take a rise once more.

[The following appeared in our issue of Saturday last: —] MARKETS. Prime beef, £1 0s to £1 2s 6d per 1001b ; mutton, to 3d per lb ; good sample milled wheat, 4s to 4s 6d ; iowls wheat, 2s 6d to 3s ; feed oats, Is 5d to Is 6d, milled, Is 7d to Is 8d ; malt barley, 2s 6d to 3s 3d, feed, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; potatoes, £2 5s to £2 7s 6d ; grass hay, £2 10s, oaten hay, £3 ; medium wheat, 3s 9d to 4s; straw, £2 ; bran, £3 5s ; pollard, £4 ; flour, £lO to £lO 10s; oatmeal, £9 K's; pearl barley, £lB j onions, 7s 6d to 8s ; cheese, sd; bacon (rolled), 9d-; hams sides bacon, B£d (grain fed) ; chaff, £2 15s.