CABLE NEWS

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1897, 15 October 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

London, October 1/ Banian and Bnbear have chatter. Ed Matterson to row on the Thames for £ 00 a side, and Teemer has also challenged i.im to a match for £2OO. October 1!. Trade generally continues to improve. A slight spurt has taken place in the i op market, and choice qualities are in b: er demand at tbe maximum price ol .ive guineas. Melboubne, October 1 The manager of the National Mortgage od Agency Company of New Zealand repor as follows of tbe local grain market; — Ship lag wheat quiet, at 5s 5d ; malting barley, do improvement at 3s 9d to 4s 3d ; New Zea nd feeding oats steady, but not in active den nd at 3a Id to 3s 3d ; milling sorts have mode ite enquiry at 3s 4d to 3s 5d ; New Zeal nd oats in bond are slow ol sale at 2s 5d to 2.7 d. October 1..

The Cesarewitb was run at the Newma ket Second October Meeting to-day, and resisted as follows:—Mr B Vyner’s Stone Clink, 1 /rs, 1; Duke of Beanfort’s The Cob, 2 ; Eurs.-ian 3. The sister of Professor Holloway, of pills and ointment fame, intends to dispute her brother’s will. Thirty thousand pounds worth ol Aus» tralian wines have been imported this year. October 13. A loan issued from Coromandel, Thames, ol £BO,OOO, has been placed in the market. Germany is rapidly arming her troops with repeating rifles. The newspapers which support General Boulanger, the present Minister of War for France predicts an early conflict with Germany Neil Matterson, the Australian sculler, sails for Australia in the Luisitania tomorrow. The statement published by the’Daily News that the Government are preparing a scheme for the government of Inland on a basis of granting a National Council for each of the foot provinces, is generally discredited. Sydney, October 13. It has transpired that Penn and Lizzie Graham were Lying in a tent on shore for five weeks after tbe wreck ol the Sovereign of the Seas.