CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1881, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[iKUTKB's TELEGRAMS.] Capetown, 3rd August. Telegrams are to hand from Pretoria announcing that the Eoyal Commissioners, having received a communication from the British Government approving of the draft convention for the settlement of the Transvool question, have now signed the document, and have left Pretoria for their various homes. The fermal t ansfer of government from the British officers to the Transvaal authorities will not, however, take place until Monday, the Bth instant. London, 3rd August. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association: — Arrived — Ship Comadre, from Timaru (22nd ApriL)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE IRISH LAND BILL IN THE LOEDS. PASSING OP IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS. THE PO3TE AND TEIPOLI. GAMBETTA AND LEGISLATIVE REFORM. MEETING BETWEEN THE EMPERORS OP GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. London, 4fch August. Consols have declined to 100£. New Zealand securities are at the following quotations : —5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 105 ; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 104$ ; 4£ per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 101 i, ex dividend. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is .£13.250,000. The Bank rate of discount is 2£ per cent.; the market rate has been reduced to lj. The wheat market is steady. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 48s ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 34s 6d ; New Zealand wheat, ex ship, 48s 6d. Australian tallow is flat. Be3t beef, 3-ls 6d ; best mutton, 36a. sth August. The Irish Land Bill was under consideration in committee in the House of Lords last night. In the course of the Bitting, clauses 1 to G were passed, but only after several important amendments had been made by the House against the wißh and despite the opposition of the Government. The Times publishes a paragraph stating that General Valentine Baker has been appointed to the command of the Turkish troops in Tripoli. Pahis, 4th August. M. Gambetta, President of the Cnamber of Deputies, who is now on a visit to Tours, addressed a large assemblage in that town to-day. In the course of his speech he alluded to the action of the Senate in rejecting the Bill for the adoption of scrntin de liste, and strongly advocated a revision of the Senate's constitution. Vienna., 4th August. _ A meeting took place to-day at Gastein, in Upper Austria, betwoen the Kmperors William of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria. No particulars of the interview have transpired.