CABLE MESSAGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4061, 7 June 1882, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

[bkuter's telegrams.]

ARRIVAL OF BORATA. London, June 4. Tho Orient Company's steamship Sorata, which left Melbourne on 19th April, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday. BAD HOP SEASON. Very unfavourable accounts have been received of the season's crop from tho Kentish hop districts. WHEAT MARKET. Adelaide wheat is quoted to-day at 51s. Bd. (? 50s. Bd.) for off-coast cargoes. WOOL SALE. At the wool sale to-day 10,700 bales were offered. The market is rather weaker for most descriptions, but fine to finest qualities are firm. FROZEN MEAT. A portion of the cargo of the frozen meat ex ship Dunedin was sold at auction to-day, and realised an average of G\d. per lb. for mutton, and 7\d. for lamb. PARSES IN BELGIUM. I Telegrams have been received from ■ Belgium stating that Sir Henry Parkes was officially received on his arrival, and that banquets and other entertainments are being organised in his honor. EGYPTIAN QUESTION. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Charles DUke, Under- Secretary for ,

Foreign Affairs, denied, in reply to a question, that the Porte had rejected the proposal to hold a conference of Powers with regard to the Egyptian question, or that Lord Dufferin had suggested that the meeting of the conference should be postponed on account of tho action which tho Sultan has taken. VICE-CHANCELLOR SUFFERING FROM PARALYSIS. London, June 5 (evening). The Vice-Chancellor, Hon* Sir Chas." Hall, is suffering from paralysis, and has resigned his seat on the Bench. DEATH OF GARIBALDI. Naples, June 5. The news of the death of Garibaldi has been received with great regret, aud there is universal mourning to-day throughout Italy. It is announced that his will directs that his body should be cremated. CONSTRUCTION OF FORTIFICATIONS. Constantinople, Juno 5, It has transpired that the Sultan has sent a telegram to the Khedive desiring him to order Arabi Pasha to put a stop to the construction of fortifications in the neighbourhood of Alexandria. PRINCESS LOUISE AT QOEBEO. Ottawa, June 6. H.R.H. Princess Louise (Jfarchion. ess of Lome) arrived at Quebec to-day from England,