LATE CABLES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5421, 10 January 1889, Page 3

LATE CABLES

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(Received January 10, 1,30 p.m.)

LONDON MARKETS

London, January 8. The quantity of wheat unci flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,270,000 quarters, and for the continent 400,000 quarters. The American visible wheat supply is 37,873,000 bushels. The money market is dopreseed, owing to an expected early reduction in the bani rate. Three months bills are quoted ai three per cent. There is small demand for wool in London, but the Yorkshire market is busy, and it is expected that at next soriea prices will remain firm. THE QUEEN , . January i). Queen Victoria will visit Biarrirz in March next. UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA. Tho Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 12 percent., and carried forward £22,000. OBITUARY. Obituary—Colonel Sillery, an old New Zealand campaigner. GOLD COINAGE. Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announces his intention to improve tho gold coinage. THE LOSS OF THE RENFREWSHIRE. The Board of Trade, Glasgow, have held an enquiry into the loss of the ship Renfrewshire, bound from Glasgow to Brisbuno, but wore unable to decide how the vessel was lost. "SILVER FALLS." Mr Garner, theatrical manager, has purchased tho rights of the melo-drama " Silver Falls" for production in Australia. FIGHT WITH BURMESE REBELS. Rangoon, January 8. Goneral Collet engaged and defeated a rebel force under Sawlupaw, the Burmese chief. The British casualties were twelve. The Burmese loss is estimated at two hundred killed. REVOLUTIONISM IN SPAIN. Madkip, Jamiary 8. A petard exploded at the palace but without doing any curious injury, S ;vere bon.b explosions have occurred in the city recently. THE SAMOAN WAR. BußLijf, January 8. The Gorman officials accuse Mr Hacklock, US. Consul at Snmoa, and Capt. Leary, of tho U.S. Warship Adonis, with instigating tho recent rising at Samoa by supplying Mataafa with rifles. Prince Bismaroh has made n. complaint to this effect to the United States Government at Washington. THE MORIER AFFAIR. The Dowager Empress Augusta has roquexted Prince Bismarck to give it denial to tho statement that Councillor Brundis rovoaled the contents of secret war despatches to Sir R. Morier during the Franco-Prussian war. DYNAMITING IN ROME. IIOMK, January !). All attempt made to dynamite the Prefecture of Police ut Leghorn failed. FRENCH REVENUE. Pabis, January 0. Tho French revenue for the year shows an increase of forty million francs above the estimate. The increase in chiefly owing to tho imposition of taxes on sugar and foreign corn. THE CHINESE. Ottawa, January 8. In the course of an interview with Ministers a leading Chinese merchant etated that many of his fellow countrymen were preparing to leave tho United States. lie expressed the opinion that a million Chinese would shortly leave the States for Canad'i and Australia.