ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5056, 21 November 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

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LONDON, November 17

Consols, 100-f; Bank of England rate of discount remains at 5 per cenfc; the market rate is 31. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England £10,500,000. New Zealand Four and a Half per Cent., 1879-1904 loan has advanced to 101f; Five per Cent., 10-40, and 1889 loans are unchanged, at respectively 104J and 104. Adelaide and New Zealand breadstuffeand Australian tallow are without quotable change.

An extensive robbery was to-day committed at Hatton Garden (London) Post Office. The gas in the office was suddenly turned of!, and before it could be relighted a registered bank package, containing diamonds and other valuables worth £80,000, was stolen. The robber has not yet been discovered.

November 18,

Consols have fallen i, and are to-day quoted at 100 i. New Five per Gent. 10.40 Loan, 104; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104 j Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 1001. Adelaide wheat is unchanged at 575, ex store; New Zealand ditto, 52s 6d; Adelaide flour, ex store, 425. The total quantity of ■wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,300,000 quarters. Australian tallow, best beef, 395; best mutton, 41s 6d. Pig iron, No. 1, f.o.b. in Clyde, 52s per ton.

The Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on 11th October, were delivered here to-day, No confirmation has yet been received of the statements contained in the "Standard" telegram of the 16th inst, that Mopoch, one of the leading chiefs in the Lyndenburg district of Transvaal, had declared war against the Boers. Intelligence is, however, to hand from Durban (Natal) that the telegraph line between that place and Pretoria is broken, and no news regarding the reported outbreak of Natives can therefore be obtained.