CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1850, 28 June 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE ENGLISH WOOL MARKET. LARGE FIRE IN MELBOURNE. London, Jane 23. At the wool sales to-diy, a ca.logos of 14,000 bales was submitted, and prices throughout were firmly maintained. Sydney, Riverina, and Adelaide sciorrd an ) greasy wools were in good demani at au advance of 2d to 3d per lb. Greasy wool«--Low to inferior qualities were 3d to 4 I highr. Short Sydneys and Port Philip wool advanced 2d to 2fd per ib. New Zealand wools rtnge per lb about Ifd above the prices obtained at tbo last sales. Fine crossbreds were about Id higher. A meeting will take place b.Ueeu the Emperors of Ueinuny aud Austria at Gasteinin July, aud between the Czar and the Emperor of Austria at tome tows u> Russia in September. Parnell accepts Gladstone's proposals as a final settlement of tbs Boms Bole question* Pane, Jobs 24. The Comte dc Ptrie hu UltleJ a “flntfrete to the French notion* In which be •■"'■nnoeo bis intention to tabor untiringly for tbo ealra* lion of France, whoso sol# bopo, bo aftrao lies in a reotoration of tbo mouarefar. Mooro’e timber yaiq wu totoliy dootimd by fire last night. Tbo loos amotwto to £16,000, while the humnaoes are only £dOCO. In eoneeqoenoo of the onfaTonbio mnorto from Kimberley, Howard Smith's otcoaer bu been token off tbs becth fee Qmbita ffqif.