CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2092, 15 July 1887, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Paris,: 12th July, i M. Floqnet has resignedthe Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, owing to a disorderly debate yesterday, during which the Left attacked the Government and accused it of Royalist tendencies, A great scene of confusion prevailed, and the president was powerless to preserve order.

London, 11th July. Australian tallow, average quality— Reef, 2?s fid; mutton, 245. Wool.—At to-day’s sale prices were firmly maintained. The catalogue comprised 8500 balea,

The hop crop accounts are rather unpromising bat the showery weather now pre» vailing* expected to have a good effect. Arrived—Hurunui, from Wellington; Pleione, from Wellington. The Queen has presented £IOOO to the Imperial Institute fund. London, 13 th July. Serious rioting took place yesterday at Belfast on the occasion of the Orange demonstration in celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. A large force of police was called out and charged the mob and order was then restored.

Sydney, 12th July. Four cases of smallpox hare developed among the persons wha were quarantined on the appearance of the disease here on the Ist inst.

Melbourne, 12th July. The manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand reporta as follows of the local grain market; —Shipping wheat, steady, but not in active demand, at 3s lOd to 3s lid; malting barley baa rather more inquiry at reduced prices, viz., 4s 9d to 5s fid; New Zealand feeding oats have more demand at a slight improvement 2s lOd to 2s lid ; milling sorts, in fair demand at 2s lid to 3s, New Zealand oats, under bond unchanged at 2s to 2s 2d.