NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1741, 2 October 1885, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

ANOTHER BATTLE ON THE ALBANIAN FRONTIER. DECIDED DEFEAT OF THE TURKS. DISASTROUS FLOODS IN BENGAL. 3500 SQUARE MILES UNDER WATER. A THOUSAND CASES OF SMALLPOX, RUSSIAN TROOPS MASSING. TURKISH RESERVES BEING MOBILISED. London, September 30. At to-day's wool sales 9000 bales were catalogued, the demand being steady, but without activity. Constantinople, September 29. Intelligence is to baud from Albania of a further engagement between the Albanian forces and the Turkish troops despatched to suppress the rising in that province. Tbe Turkish Loops sustained a decided defeat, and are now completely surrounded by the Albanians. September 30. Turkish War Office has mobilised 80 of tbe reserve forces, and (Detractions have been given to recal as many troops as can be spared from the Island of Crete. The Rnsstan troops are massing at Bessarabia, a province of South Russia, between the Pruth and Dniester. The Turks ate sending large reinforcements to Adrianople and Salonica. Servia is enrolling solaiers. A thousand eases of smallpox are reported at Montreal, where anti-vaccine riots have broken out. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria is about to despatch a deputation to His Majesty the Su.tan, with the object of reassuring him of the continued loyalty of Bulgaria to the suzerainty of the Porte.

Calcutta, September 29. Disastrous floods are reported from many parts of the Bengal Presidency, and it is estimated that L.'iiy 3500 square miles of country are at present under water. Melbourne, September 30. Joseph Symes, the wed-known Freethought lecturer, was brought before the Magistrates to-day on a charge of publishing articles of a b'a-phemo’Js nature in his newspaper (the L’’t-rator), and after examination was committed for trial. Inc n eat manager of the National Mortgage .and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited! reports on the Melbourne grain market as follows Shipping wheat has a slightly improved tendency, Is Id to 4s 2d per bushel ; malting barley is neglected at 3s 'Jd to 4s Jit ; New Zfalaud oats, feed sorts, are du.l at 2s lid to 3s ; milling, quiet, 3s Id to Hs 2d ; New Zealand oats under bond, 2s 2d to 2s 4d. October 1. The b ietorisn quarterly returns published to-day give the rtvt-iiue for the past three months as £1,4.j0,0C-0, being a decrease compared with the coru-tponding period of last year of £24,000. Ihe principal falling-off is in excise, land sales, and territorial revenue.

Adelaide October 1. The revenue for the past qu-ater baa been £531,100, being an increase of £21,000 on the tame period of last year.