LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ANOTHER TURCO-GREEK DIFFICULTY.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 126, 26 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ANOTHER TURCO-GREEK DIFFICULTY.

ENGLAND AND THE RUSSIAN INDEMNITY CLAIM. Constantinople, 24th November. A difficulty has arisen between the Turkish and Greek Governments regarding the existence of a Greek Post Office in this city. The matter has formed the snbject of lengthy diplomatic communications, and as no Bettlement could be arrived at the Porte has now peremptorily ordered the closing of the office. It has transpired that Mr. Bourke, the Turkish bondholders' delegate, did his utmcst, during the progress of the negotiations with the Ottoman Financial Commission, to support the Government in its refusal to agree to the demand of the Russian Ambassador, that the question of the payment of the war indemnity should be dealt with simultaneously with the claims of the foreign bondholders. London, 24th November. Consols, 100J-. Bank rate of discount, 5 ; market rate, ±k per cent. Total reserve in notes and bullion in thy Bank of England, £ 10,750,000. New Zealand securities are unchanged. Adelaide wujat, ex warehonse, 57s ; New Zealand ditto, 52s 6d. Adelaide flour, ex store, 425. Australian tallow — Best beef, 39a ; best mutton, 41s 6d. There is only a limited domand for Australian hides, and prices are one-eighth of a peuny lower. At the wool sale to-day, 7800 bales were catalogued. A firm and active demand was experienced.