CABLEGRAMS

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4527, 2 December 1884, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

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A Paying _,;uid Company. (Beceived December 2—11.50 a.m.) London, December I.—Tho South Au.trjlian Land Mortgage and Agency Compiny will, in January next, icti.r.i to the sliareliolders £,") per (li-irj on the paid up capital. Tho Oriental B.^nk Estate. A call of £10 per share will bo made in the Oriental Bank estate in January, and another of about £15 during the year. The liquidator estimates that tho creditors will xccsive 19a in tho £. Defeat of tho French In China. LoNDOif, December I.—Tho French 'troops have been repulsed'by the Chinese at Keluncj, with a las* of twenty killed. Tbo Congo Question. Berltit, November :!o.— At a sitting of the International Conference yesterday, a resolution in favour of free trade on the Congo Kiver nnd in the neighbouring coun- ' try was adopted. 'ADKLAIOK, this day.—A suspected-in-cendiary was arrested hero yestetday by the police.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's (Limited) London market telegram, dited 20th Xovembor, reports : — >Vool.—The sale? closed at the )eve' of last sales on 29th inst. Market easier ovcap' for clothing washed, sho.-t sUiplo in irino scoured, short stnjil j merino heavy in grets>, coarse scoured crossbred. Tl o a*!e<oomprised about 185,(X):) bales 10,000 baluH have beon hild over for future disposal. 7,000 bales have been tnko:v for expirt. Continental domand \va.« goo.l, bat tliollomo tnide.purchnxed sparingly. Whe.it.—Adelaide wheat, new crop, ti arrive. Iron ship .is worth, c.i.f., IMs Cd par -tSOlbs. January bill of hidinf,'. Tallow.—i Market Hat. Mutton and beef t\T3 worth 84s per cwt. Lenthcr.—Market dropping. Eost hides nre worth llld par l'o. Hdps.-r-3Tew Zealand aro worth Ma per cwt.