SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5630, 2 December 1879, Page 5

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

WOOL STILL ADVANCING. [from our own correspondent.] Lo>"don - , November 20. The wool market is firm. Prices are hardening. Foreign purchasers are most active. Cross breeds show 3d to 4d advance ; scoured Merino, 2d; greasy, barely Td.

COMMERCIAL.

London, November 'AS. Best Australian beef tallow is 37a 6d per CTTt. ; best Australian mutton tallow, 39s percwt. At the wool sales to-day C 931 bales were catalogued.

IRISH SEDITION.

Irkutsk's telegrams.j Dublin, November 30. Killen has been committed for trial, and bail refused. GLADSTONE ON FINANCE AND THE SUPREMACY OF TURKEY. Edinburgh, November 30. Mr. Gladstone, at a meeting, denounced tlie Government finance as reckless and dishonest. He insisted on the autonomy and the emancipation of the people in the Balkan Peninsula, and warned Europe against allowing Austria to extend her influence where supremacy of Turkey should be maintained.

KING ALPHONSO'S MARRIAGE. Madbid, November 30. King Alphonso's marriage with the Arch-Ducheas Christine was celebrated to-day.

RUMOURED REBELLION IN ALBANIA.

Constantinople, November 18. The Arnauts inhabiting the frontier of Albania have revolted, and massacred Ahmed Mouktar Pasha. Constantinople, November 30. The murder of Mouktar Pasha is denied.

London, November 29. The 3 per cent consuls are 9Sf d ; 5 per New Zealand 10.40 loan, 103. Adelaide wheat, per 49Glbs., ex warehouse, 49s 0d; Adelaide flour, per 2801b5., ex warehouse, 325. Hennessy's brandy, 11s. At the wool sales to-day, 9800 bales were catalogued, and tone of the market was firm, with active demand.

SEDITION IN IRELAND. PLOT TO SEIZE THE CORK POWDER MAGAZINE.

[SPECIAL T) MBLUOURXE " AGE."] London, November 29,

The Government have been warned of a conspiracy to seize the Cork powder magazine. The guards have been doubled, and the garrison of Cork reinforced. The Board of Public Works invite the Irish Municipalities to suggest means of relieving local distress. Mr. Gladstone intends addressing the electors of North Devon. Dissatisfaction in regard to Government extravagance is increasing.

COLONIAL NEWS. [UEUTEII's TELEGRAMS. J Sydney, December 1. Captain Holt died this morning. Roman Catholice are holding meetings throughout the country to protest against the Education Bill.