CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1887, 22 September 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

London, September 17. The Earl of Dalkeith baa been accidentally ■hot dead while pursuing a stag. The P. and 0. Company's Indian mail contract will effect a yearly saving to the Government of £96,000. The company guarantee an average speed of 12 knots. Agrarian outrages sre increasing in Kerry Clare, and Waterford. A sculling match will take place in May between Banian and Gaudanr. New Zealand mutton is selling at from 4£d to ltd per lb. Australian heef tallow, fair average qn&lity 33a 6<l , mutton Uiluw, 265. Wool, 11.500 bales.—Market strong. The present series of colonial wool auctions will eioee on the second October. September 12. A sweepstakes of £IOOO each will be run Oh the 29th of October between Ormonde, Melton, and The Bard, at Newmarket, over a distance of a mile and a quarter. Hutchens, the English professional, has accepted Malone’s pedestrian challenge, and ■ails for Sydney on 11th October. By the failure of the Labrador fisheries, 100,006 people have become dependent on Government. Sir James Fergusson, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in leply to a question as to the proposals of the Government in regard to Egypt, stated that it had been decided not to withdraw the British troops from that country until the proposed reforms in the administration had been executed. Sir James Ferguason farther announced that Nubar Pasha, President of the Egyptian Council of Ministers, was coming to London at tbs request of the British Government, to confer with Ministers as to the reforms to be introduced in Egypt. It is announced that Mr Gladstone is returning to England from Bavaria in order to take part on the debate on Mr Parnell's Bill dealing with the Irish land question. News is to hand from Galway that a party of polios, while escorting a number of persons who had been arrested for rioting at evictions, were attacked by a large mob. The police charged their assailants with fixed bayonets, and killed one, a woman, and seriously injured maoy others. In the race between Mattenon and Lee there was a desperate struggle from the Star and Gaiter to the Soap Works, where the former collapsed. The time was 24Jmin. Capetown, September 17. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s s.s. Kaikooxa departed to-day for New Zealand ports.

Sydney, September 18. New Zealand wheat is selling at 4s 2d ; wit at 2a 6d per bushel ; maize, 3a 6d per 561ba. Adelaide, September 18. Wheat, from 4e lid to ?s ; flour (tiwn). £ll to £ll 15s ; country, £lO 15s.