Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5343, 6 October 1888, Page 4

Last Night's Cables.

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Lostnox, October 4

Tallow is (iiiiet—Mutton, 'ißs to 2Ss (id; beef, 27s to 27s (sd. Sugar is flat—German beet, 12s Gd. Skins and hides arc in fandemand—Ox hides I Jd. Tho weekly returns of tho Bank of England, published to-day, show tho total reserve in notes and bullion to be .£1,030,000, and the proportion of the reserve to the liabilities o-ij per cent., being a decrease of £1,898,000 in the total reserve, and a decrease of 8} per cent, in the proportion of tho reserve to the liabilities. For kuuri the market is very flat. The recent advance in wool is maintained for best merino combings and mediums and common cronsbreds. Other descriptions show a decline as compared with tho July closing rates. The market is generally The Pall Mall Gazette strongly opposes the annexation of Bi-ehuanalami to tho Cape, and urges that together with Western Australia it should be reserved as a Crown colony to relieve Great Britain of its surplus population. At the Church Congress to-day the Bishop of Calcutta's proposal th-it all religious bodies should unite to promote and carry out missionary work came up fer discussion. That Prelate argued that missionary eH'ertt- should bo devoted to Christianising without dogmatising. The Bishop of Carlisle was the only supporter of the proposal. It is atuk'd that Mr. Gladstone is revising liis public correspondence dealing with tho leading events of his life with the %-iew to publishing the correspondence at an early date.

Now consols arc at !>S.{. The iiKU-kft. ntto of diwomil. lias a<lvont;t to 4 \ per cent

Calcutta, October 4. The Itiij;ili of Sikkiin lias submitted to General Gnihiim, and tho British have occupied Tui>looii£. Severe droughts have been experienced in tho districts of Guzerut and Kuttyw.ir, extending to the Bonibuy Presidency. The ric«i crops huve failed in ninny parts of the country, und 11 famine ia nntioputed. A sharp ,sliirmi.<l) has tsikon place between tho British troops *«sit. to punish Colonel Butty 'ennnderers, the Akiwais, and the hitter were dfaperecd.