CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10420, 24 July 1895, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

THB WOOL SALES.

; " , " -'• London, July 22. There is fair competition at the wool sales, and prices are maintained. Americans are buying'heavily. .'■; ON^THE MONEY MARKET.' - ,Tbe Caledonian and Australian Mortgage Company is Issuing a quarter of a: million 4i per cent.debentures at par. ,'.-'■■: AUSTRALIAN GOVEI^ORS. Lord Brassey sailed in the Sunbeam for Portsmouth on Saturday evening. J TLord Hampden, the new Governor of New South Wales, in the Himalaya. THE COMMERCE OF,THE EMPIRE. The St. James's Gazette, referring' to. Lord Rippn's despatch, states that, the colonies will be disappointed that he haß failed to see that, a differential system within the Empire would be & weapon as effective for the retention and extension of foreign trade as for making the Empire commercially selfsufficient and independent of the rest of the world; It adds that Mr Chamberlain," with his strong view 3as to the necessity for strengthening the commercial bonds, may find a way of reopening the question ,or of meeting the colonies, with more .sympathy than did the Marquis'of Ripon. >.-

July 23. The Post doubts whether the' new Government will adhere to the lines of Lord Ripon's despatch. LONDON COUNTY COUNOIL. The Times hints that the Government will ■ reorganise the London County Council. AN AUCKLAND CONCERN. The shares in the Captain Cook Brewery Company, Auckland, have been allotted. ' OBITUARY.1 Mr Samuel Deering, Assistant Agent-general for South Australia, is dead. THE CUBAN RISING. MADEID, July 23. General' Oampos was wounded in the I recent fight with tbe'.Cuban insurgents, and escaped on horseback. The rest of his followers were killed There is mu<;h discontent among the Spanish troops. PREMIERSHIP OF BULGARIA. ' Sofia, July 23. M. Sfcoiloff, the Premiot of' Bulgaria, has resigned, fearing tha result of a rtpprochement with Russia. Special—By Telegraph—Copyright. CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK. London, July 23. A depositor, in a letter to The Times, says the kernel of the scheme for the reconstruction o£ the City of Melbourne" Bank really means confiscation. He urges that it is advisable to wind the bank up speedily and gat all they can from the wreck.

A BAND.OF STUDENTS MISSING. Washington, July 23. Thirteen, students of. Princeton College, New Jersey, who were proceeding to Yellowstone National Park to ; stndy geclcgy, are missing.- It is believed that they were ciptured by Indians at Union Pass, the Wyoming redskins being enraged at the restrictions placed by the" Government on their hunting. THE COLLISION OFF THE ITALIAN' ■ i COAST. Rome, July 21. The captains of both' the vessels were asleep at tbe feme of" the collision. The Ortiga was going 11 knots and the Maria, going 10, Crossed her bows. The Ortiga's , engines were reversed, bnt too late.