CABLE NEWS. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION IN A SULPHUR MINE.
SEIZURE OP FENIAN DOCUMENTS. RUSSIA AND THE TURKISH WAR INDEMNITY. ; r R!CTER'S TELEGRAMS. 1 London, 12fch November. Three per cent, consols hare advanced to 100| New Zealand securities are unchanged at the following quotations :— 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 104J; 5 per ceat. 1889 loan, 103. ex div.; 4i per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 100|. The market for coloniil brea-istuffa is without quotable change. Adelaide wheat, ex warehonse. 56e ; New Zealand wheat, 52s 6d ; Adelaide flour, ex store, 41s. Australian tallow is unchanged. Best beef, per cjwt., 393 ; best mutton, 4ls Gd. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association: — Arrivod — Ships Halcione. from Auckland (7th August) ; Remington, from Lyttflton (4th August) ; Clyde, from the Bluff (4th August) ; and Opawa, from Lyttelton (25th August). 13th November. News ia to hand from Sicily, announcing that a disastrous explosion has occurred in one of the sulphur mines in that island, resulting in the death of fully 50 miners. The police to-day made an important seizure of arms and documents belonging to the Fenians at Bradford, in Yorkshire. Constantinople, 13th November. M. Novikoff, the Russian Ambassador, has issued a further communication to the Porte in reference to the consideration of the question of the payment of the Russian war indemnity. II Novikoff now states that tbe fJti=sian Governmeut is willing to modify its v, :nt demands, and agreea that the claim of the foreign bondholders should receive priority of recognition over the question of the payment of the war indemnity.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 116, 15 November 1881, Page 2
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252CABLE NEWS. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION IN A SULPHUR MINE. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 116, 15 November 1881, Page 2
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