CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1860, 21 July 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

liondos, July 17. The wool sales have closed. The number of baton catalogued v>au 332,000, of which 5900 were reserved. TUe market baa gained siuce the beginning of tlie senes, and as oiuaiug baa reached tbe tugboat prices. Aui tralian morinoes show >tu advases of 30 per oeiit. above Apiil ra'es. Gieai-y aorta are 40 per ceut., aud crusebreds are 15 per cent, above piieea in April. About !>H per cent, of the sales have been taken for export. Australian talli w bag advanct ii (i.l tier owt. Beef is now qm tea 25s and mutton 27a per cwt. New Zealand frozen mutton is quoted at 5d to SJJ per lb. (beat excitement was created in Pari* over tbe duet between General Boulanger and M. Liuientz. The litter tired first and missed bis opponent, who fired his revolver in tbe air. ibe quarrel arose turuugb the scenes in tbe Fieock Se-iale over General Boulanger’s motion fox' the removal of the Due d’Aumale's name from the Fituob army list. The treaty fur tbe extradition of dynamiters is causing much excitement among tbe Amerisan-Irisb. Mr John Buskin is ill. Earl Granville baa announced hie intention of retiring into private life. The Marquis of Hartiugton baa dacllned to accept Mr Gladstone's suggeetad modification of the Home Bole proposals. Mr Gladstone's letters to tbs press indicate a tendency to a repeal of tbo Union, and to abolish the House of Lord*. Jnjy 19. A eirsokr has bean issued by tbe Executive Commissioners of tbe Indian and Colonial Exhibition, inviting tba opening of aobeerip* tion liste throughout India and tba with tbe view to tbe presentation of a testis, moninlto tba Prinea of Wales, in recognition of the action of bis Boys! "tgktrn |jj nfueetion with |hl IIMMWn.