CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9293, 8 December 1891, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

[By Elkctric Tki.egiuwi.—Copyright.] (Pkb Pkrss Association.) MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. London, December 5. (Received December 7, at 10.10 a.m.) Up to date 109,200 bales of wool have been catalogued, of which 103,000 have been sold. Foreign buyers have taken large quantities. Superior scoured shows a JUI advance on last quotations. December 6. The English wheat market is dull, and Continental is declining. The American market is also dull. lor New Zealand wheat, off coast, sellers arc asking 455, but buyers refuse to give more than 445. Tallow is unchanged. ThcTimaru Harbour Board debentures have risen 1 per cent. REDUCTION IN FREIGHTS. Shaw, Savill, and Co. have reduced freights by 5s dead weight, 7s 6d rough, and 10s measurement, to begin on December 15. PERSONAL. December 7. (Received December 8, at 0.50 a.m.) The Duke of Clarence and Avondalo has informed the Queen that he is betrothed to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. The Queen has approved of the match, and the press is generally m favour of it. Prince George has had a slight relapse. The Duke of Devonshire is better. PROSECUTING SOCIALISTS.

Seven Socialists were found guilty of obstruction and unlawful assembly at Chelsea. Sentence was postponed. AN OLD DEBT. The Standard suggests that the Government should pay the Bank of England an old debt of 11 millions in gold, making a genuine reserve available in. case of emergency. AN ALARMIST SPEECH. The Roman correspondent of the Chronicle says that SiguorCrispi (ex-Premier of Italy) has caused a sensation by a speech in the Chamber of Deputies to the effect that it was imperative the country should be prepared for war, which is inevitable shortly. RUSSIAN JEWS. (Received December 8, at 1.45 a.m.) Baron Hirsch's scheme for disposing of Russian Jews confines the scope of emigration to the United States, Brazil, and Argentine. THE LATE DOM PEDRO. Universal regret is expressed in European capitals at the death of Dom Pedro, late Emperor of Brazil. THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. Thirteen thousand persons were attacked by influenza in Hamburg last week. The epidemic is now raging in Copenhagen. FATAL EXPLOSIONS. St. l*KTßi:snun<i, December 7. (Received December 8, at 1.10 a.m.) By a colliery explosion at Nifka, in Russian Poland, 180 miners werfc killed. I'aiiis, December 7. (Received Decembers, at 1.40 a.m.) Seventy-two men were killed by an explosion of lire damp in a mine at St. Etienne. A PLOT AGAINST THE SULTAN. Constantinoi'i.k, December 7. (Received December 8, at O.:W a.m.)

It is reported that a plot against the Sultan has been discovered, in which tin; officers of the army are implicated, and one general has been arrested. THE CHINESE OUTRAGES. Homiko.vo, December 7. (Received December 8, at 0.5 a.m.) The Chinese Government has paid Goo,ooodol as compensation for the Wahu outrages. THE SUEZ CANAL. , C.kiito, December 7. (Received December S, at 0.50 a.m.) The Suez Canal Company intend to lay a steam tramway between Port Said and Ismailia, for the convenience of passengers and mails. AMERICAN POltK. Vienna, December 7. (Received December 8, at 0.50 a.m.) Austria has agreed to admit American pork. THE NEW YORK SENSATION. New Yohk, December G. (Received December 7, at 10.5 a.m.) Another version of the attempt to murder Mr Russell Sage, the millionaire, states that one of the lunatics carried a bag of dynamite, which he exploded by firing a. pistol into it.

(Spkcial to Press Association.) THE BUTTER MARKET. London, December 6. (Received December 7, at 10.5 a.m.) H. Trengrouse and Co., provision merchants, Tooley street, who have succeeded in selling butter at £G 2s, say the. market could absorb double the quantity of the finest colonial butter. They declare that the standard of quality set up by merchants is unfair, and attribute recent low prices to carrying butter in the same chamber as game and fish. # FROZEN MUTTON. The excessive, quantity of American beef lately landed has had a bad effect on the markets for frozen mutton, and prices are not expected to improve till after Christmas. THE AUSTRALIAN FAILURES. The Financial Press, referring to the panics and failures in Sydney: and Melbourne, allege that they are due to wild speculation in land.