LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1251, 9 February 1874, Page 3

LONDON.

, January 31. The stock markets are dulll Wool sales have been postponed until the 17th in consequence of the elections. The price of wheat is dropping owing to «*ge expected arrivals. America has shipped half-a-million quarters during the last three weeks. Adelaide w aeat is depressed, with few transactions.'" The present cash quotations for Australian copper are £91 to £92. r The tin market is heavy and unsettled, *«h receding quotations, j Strait's tin is now quoted at £115, Australian at £113. ■c lax is lower.

~^^ c Conservative candidates are opposing the re-election of the Right Hon. W. S: wladstone.

February 1. Up to Saturday last forty-eight members we been elected. Of these twenty are liberal and twenty-eight, are Conservative candidates.' - . . ■ • ,

. General G-ablentz has committed suicide *& Spain. - General Woolseley and the British forces jader his command reacted the river Prah on sne Ist January. ; About an hour after his t^v- wa^ met yan Ambassador from r e Klng of Ashantee, bearing letters asking wt peace. Sir Garnet Woolseley said that he ,^would only treat .^ith the King himself at Vfl? om j81e» 'whejeupon the Ambassador re'™i^:The fifth (Naval) Brigade oroseed *tiwu B *9rv^ tive3 °P? oije Mr Gladstone's W-Weotioa for Greeawio^,, - ,

Messrs. Bright, Muntz, and Dixon have been returned unopposed for Birmingham. Lhe Dutch have captured Kraton. Ihe Carlists are blockading Bilboa