CABLEGRAMS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5280, 25 July 1888, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

London, July '23, Tho now consols are quoted at 99 j. Tho Bank rato of discount is at per cent.

Tin is quoted at £80 ss; copper, Chili bars, £79.

An Australian cargo of wheat has been sold at 335.

The continued heavy rains in England nnd on the Continent are creating a good deal of anxiety in agricultural and commercial circles, an it is feared that much dumage will bo caused to the crops. THE ADVENTURESS. Mrs Gordon-Baillio and her husband have been committed for trial. Boil was refused. PARNELLISM AND CRIME. Mv Paruell has announced that he desires a full enquiry into tho whole of the charges made against him by Tho Times. He only stipulates that the commission proposed to be appointed shall bo of a non-political character, and shall make their report within a reasonable time. It is believed that tho following will bo appointed as the commissioners :—Lord Justice Sir Charles Syngu Bowen, Justice Sir Alfred Will?, nnd Lord Young-, of the High Court of Justice for Scotland. It is rumored that disclosures will bo made to show that Tho Times was hoaxed in rofereuoo to tho letters published in that paper on the subject of " Parnellisra and Crime." Mr Reginald Brett alleges that ho is prepared to prove that prior to the publication of tho letters in Tho Times he was interviewed by an ex-member of tho House of Commons, who offered to furnish ovidence which would prove conclusively that Mr Paniell was concerned in many of the horrible outrages which had taken piaco in Ireland. Mr Brett states further that his informant demanded £1000 for the information, but ho declined to give it, not feeling satisfied that tho man's statements were true. Mr Brett asserts his belief that The Times afterwards purchased this man's information, and published it in the now famous letters on " Purnellism and Crime."

THE MAHDI'S FORCE DIMINISHING SUAKIM, July %} It is thought here that the Mahdi'e force is diminishing , in consequence of a report received to the effect that Stanley's force repulsed several attacks made upon his position nenr Darfonr. WHOLESALE DROWNING OF DKRVISHES. One hundred and fifty Egyptians flying from the Dervishes were drowned in tho Nile. The Dervishes afterwards encountered the forces undor Colonel Wodi'honse, with the result previously chronicled. EMPEROB WILLIAM'S VISIT TO • v RUSSIA. Berlin, July 23. The opinion obtains iv official circles that tho visit of. tho Emperor William to tho Cznr will have, the eilect of removing any pcMsiblo difference between Germany and Russia ; that it will make no change in the relations between Germany and her allies ; and that it will not affect Russia's liberty of action in dealing with European affairs. THE RECENT OUTRAGES IN INDIA. Cai-cutta, July 23. It is Btated that 10,000 troops will bo despatched in tho autumn to punish the Ghilzais for their recent outrages.