CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3432, 30 December 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, HOME AND FOREIGN. (renter's telegrams). Received December 30, at 1 a.m.

Cairo, December 29. General Stephenson, the commander of the British troops at Wady Haifa, has arrived at the front, and is now actively engaged in preparation for the repulse of tho rebels.

' (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received December 29, at 10.45 p.m. ; V: - London,-December 28. . Mr Murray Smith will resign the position of Agent-General for Victoria in the beginning of April. It is feared, that ;the parleying which has. been proceeding respecting the proclamation of a sovereignty over. New Guinea, and the question of increased contributions by the colonies to this end, will be a fiasco. Received December 30, at 0.50 a.m. London, December 29.

The Duke of Argyle, • writing to the Times on the subject of local Government for Ireland, protests that it is impossible to treat Ireland like the colonies.

The Times considers that Mr Gladstone's leadership will imperil the Liberal party. . AUSTRALIAN.

(RBUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

Received December.3o, at 1 a.m. Melbourne. December 29,

The manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), reports on the local grain market aa follows Shipping wheat is rather weaker at 33 lOd to 3s lid. In malting barley there .is. no improvement, and prices are from 3s 6d to 3s 9d. New Zealand. feed oats are a shade firmer at from 2s 9d to 2s lid; New Zealand milling oats are in better demand at 3a to 3s Id ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s Id to 2s 3d.

.The Victorian general elections have been fixed for the 20th February.