CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1190, 19 September 1874, Page 10

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, August 29th. The harvest is nearly completed, and the result is satisfactory. The Great Eastern is laying the new Atlantic cable. The wool sales proceed with extreme firmWAQQ Seventy thousand bales have been sold. Foreign buyers are operating vigorously, and home manufacturers are busy. The Brussels International Congress has closed. . M'Mahon has returned to Paris from Brittany, through which he lias been making a tour, and where he was very quietly received. In replying to addresses presented him, he reiterated the statements he had previously made as to the absolute necessity of the seven years' continuance of his Presidentship being definite and fixed. In wheat there has been no recovery from the heavy fall that has recently taken place. English wheat is selling at from 44s to 52s per quarter. September Ist. The Australian mails via Brindisi and San Francisco were delivered together yesterday. September 3rd. Sir George Berkeley has been appointed to the governorship of Western Australia, as successor to Governor Weld, appointed to Tasmania. . The Ship Suffolk, from London to Brisbane, is at Mauritius re-fitting. Tallerman's Meat Preserving Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. September sth. The Austrian Arctic Polar explorers have arrived at Norway, after abandoning the expedition. Tegettoff reports travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80 degs. . The Great Eastern has completed laying the new Atlantic cable. The Marquis of Ripon has adopted Catholicism, and has resigned the Grand Mastership of Freemasons. At the wool sales 116,000 bales were sold principally to the Home trade. Tone of the market is now weaker. Balme and Co., woi l-brokers, report of the series that wool has advanced. Superior scoured fleece isjld lower ; scoured, lid to 2d ; washed halfbreds, Id to Hd ; greasy half-bred, Ad to Id; greasy merino, -£d. Wheat steady at decline. Adelaide 55s to 58s. Flour 375. to 43s per 2801bs. The fifth cable across the Atlantic has een successfully laid. Arrived. — Loch Maree, from Melbourne ; Hudson, Redgauntlet, Nineveh, Robert Burns, Dilharee, Margaret Galbraith, Dallam Tower, Abbey. Paris, Sept. 5. On the 4th a disturbance occurred in the department of Meuse. The Gendarmerie intervened. One rioter was killed and nineteen wounded. Slight demonstrations also occurred in other places, and at Lyons several arrests were made. Sept. Bt'd. The L'Univers newspaper has Yen suspended for a fortnight, for publishing offensive articles against Marshal Serrano. Madrid, Sept. 4th. The Zabala Cabinet has resigned, and a new ministry has been formed, with Senor Sagasta as Premier ; Minister of Interior, Signor Begayr ; Minister of War, Ministerial Offices, Finance, Colonies, and Foreign Affairs, remain unchanged. The Carlists have abandoned Puigcerda. September sth. The Carlists at Guteria, in the North, fired upon a German gunboat, which replied, Bending twenty-four shells into the town. Berlin, Sept Bth. An extensive conflagration has occurred at Meiningen, which destroyed half the town, and 3000 persons were rendered houseless. New York, September Ist. The committee having investigated the charges preferred by Theodore Tilton against the Key. Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth Church, acquitted Beecher.