CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 4 March 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegrams.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT, ] LONDON, March 1. The National Review has .published Mr Parsons' article on the northern territory. The European Powers have agreed to accept a convention for the protection of submarine cables. Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, proceeds to Paris on Wednesday, to inspect tho Decourille Railway. • Cargoes of Australian wheat, to arrive in February and March, havo been sold at 40s to 41s; • The wool catalogue contains one hundred and eight thousand bales, Competition is good, but Merinces are easy. Crossbreds are firm. • SYDNEY,. ■ March 1. Received March 2, 10.30 a.m.—Mr G. H. Reid has resigned tho portfolio of Minister of Education. The funeral of Dr Badham took place yesterday, and was very largely attended, ADELAIDE, March 1. Wheat continues quiet at 3s lid to 4s, f.o.b. Town flour, £9l2s Gd to £9 15s; cruntry brands, £8 10s to £8 12a 6a. Freights to London (steamers), 45s nominal. Freights to London (sailing), 35s to 40s, Freights to United Kingdom from outports (sailing), 37s .to 40s. SYDNEY, March 1. New Zealand wheat 3s Gd; Now Zealand oats, 3s; inaizo, per 561bs, 3s 9d. Sugar Company's No, 1 pieces, £34. . . LONDON, February 29. Received March 8, 0,20 a.m.—Consols remain at 10|, and New Zealand securities at yesterday's quotation. ~ The breadstuffs market is unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 44s j New Zeuland ditto, 363 to 425, Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 30s. The total quantity of wheat afloat for. Great Britain is 1,640,000 quarters. 'Tallow has advanced Gd. Australian, average vitality, beef, 38s Cd; mutton, 425.

Copra lias fallen 10s per ton. Sydney sun-dried is now Worth £l9los. Leather—Best Australian sides remain at lid. The catalogue at to-day's wool sale comprised 11,300 bales. The market continues steady, but the demand is not active. LONDON", . March 1..,■ It lias transpired that the Government has sent a communication to the' United States Government complain-' ing of the assistance afforded in; America to dynamite plotters in England, by the manufacture of infernal machines. Another machine identical with those already seized, was found to-day at Ludgate Hill Railway Station. ALBANY, . Monday. Arrived, yesterday, at King George's Sound—P. and O. steamship Mizapore, with English mail via Brindisi, dated London, 25th January., MELBOURNE,. Monday. Thirty-one horses ran in the Newmarket Handicap on Saturday.