Farigh Pasha was taken before the Mahdi, who said : " You were a slave. You deceived them, and you would betray 1110 also. Cut off his head!" The order was at once obeyed.
Many white women arc still prisoners at Khartoum.
THE LONDON WOOL SALES.
[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Pkr Press Association.) London', February 17. (Heceived February 18, at V2/M p.m.) The wool sales are proceeding with a general improvement. At yesterday's sales French buyers operated freely. Two hun dred and twenty-three thousand bales were catalogued, of which 20)3,000 were sold.
Tho British and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company have received the following cablegram from Messrs Helmuth Schwartzo

and Co., dated tho I*th inst.: —" The sales con tinue very aujmated, and tho lately telegnohed improvement h:is bepome still more marked. The bulk of wools are at par to .^d higher. The finest grades of greasy and crossbreds generally nre very firm. About 190,000 bales have been catalogued up to elate, of which about 10 per cent. havo been "?itlu:b*awii and (JO per cent, taken for export/'

" I'hysicians of all schools uso aud recom mend Ilr Soule's American Hop Bitters. Test them." 3 —A merchant recently from Constanti nople says th;:t S'".000oz of attar of roses were bottled in Turkey tins summer. The greater pari of this product is shipped to France.
THE REASON SATISFIED,

Analysis cannot, lie, neither can the uniform experience of a half century be gainsaid. On theee two vouchers rest tho claims of Wolfe's Schnapps to out-rank all other stimulants. 78

Masterton, February 18,

A horse ridden by a boy named Griffin was frightened by an engine crossing the Wairarapa railway bridge this morning and threw his rider, who struck a post and hac! his brains dashed out.
