CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 141, 22 May 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE COLLISION IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. THE WOOL SALES. EXCITEMENT ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE, THE ROM A >J* CATHOLIC CHURCH AND IRISH AFFAIRS. THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD. THE MA.ILS. COMMERCIAL. (SPECIAL TO tTNTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 .) London, May 19. An enquiry has been held iato the circumstances iv connectioa with the collision between the ships British Commerce and County Aberdeen, which took place m che English Ohanne on 24th April. The finding of the Bo&rd was that the occurrence was attributable to negligence on the part of the master of the County Aberdeen. ■••••■•■-■ At the wool sales to-day 10,900 bales were catalogued, making a total of | 39 ,100 catalogue i sinc9 the opening of ' the series. The tone of tne s Me was firm. At the wool sales Merino maintained its value, but inferior wools are easier m price, and crossbred is a halfpenny lower. Thirty-nine thousand bales haye been catalogued, of which 2400 hare been withdrawn. Owing to a heavy failure by a jobber on the Stock Exchange, a semi- panic has been created, and Home- stocks are affected. ... . r"It is believed that the Pope's recent decisive action m reference, to Irish affairs, is due to the instigation of Mr \ Errington, MP.,and Cardiuals Mann* ing and ML'Cabe. The clergy m Ireland tracitly asqutescein the decision of His Holiness, but the leaders of the Land League assume an attitude of defiance . The Peninsula aud Oriental Steam Navigation has declared at dividend of 1\ per cent, for the past half-year. Paris, May 19. Various conflicting accounts have: been' published here regarding the: alleged death of the Comte de Guambord. No official announcement has yet b?en made. San Francisco, May 18. „ The l J acific Maii steamship City of New York arrived here from Auckland . yesterday (time table d ate). ■■