TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 6030, 10 July 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, July 7. Consols remain at 99|. The market rate of discount has been reduced to 1$ to 2 per cent. The bonk rate is 8 per cent. New Zealand securities are firm at last quotations. Adelaide wheat (ex j|pre) has risen Is—to 52s i New Zealand (aT store) has advanced Is—to 50s. Adelaide flour is quoted at 36s—an advance of Is, The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,070,000 quarters, or 40,000 more than last week. Australian tallow : Best beef, 43s 6d j best mutton, 43s 6d. Galvanised iron (20in gauge), LI 8. Best Sydney copra, LI 5 15s.

July 8 (evening). Consols ore unchanged at 992. The New Zealand 5 per cent, 10-40 loan has advanced to 106£, and the 4fc per cent, loan to 103. The 5 per cent. 1889 loan is unchanged at 1.06, The markets for colonial produce are unchanged.

The following have appeared in the Melbourne papers One hundred and fiity Albanians convicted of having assisted in the attack on Commander Selby, at Artakl on February 13, were sentenced to one year’s penal servitude. Serious fears are entertained by the Irish authorities that a widespread Fenian rising is immmsnt. The Orangemen of Armagh are adrirsiy organising to defeat the object, and shruld an insurrection break out will be prepared to render armed assistance in quelling it. The ringleaders of tho recent savage attack made by some Russian peasants on Jewish residents at Balta, a town of Southern R issia, have been placed upon their trial. A fatal railway accident is reported from America. A train from Long Branch to a place on the coast of New Jersey State, where General Grant resides, ran off tho lino in o the water. Five persons were killed, but General Grant, ■who was a passenger, escaped from injury. Tho two Maori chiefs delegated by the Natives to present a petition to Her Majesty pointing out the injustice done to tlie Maori race by tte dealings of successive Governments with the lands, have arrived in London. Great excitement prevailed in London on June 29 about the state of affairs in Ireland, A number of wild rumors were current indicating that some fresh outrages of a horrible nature had been perpetrated. Several high State officials were reported to have been assassinated. The Earl of Olanrlcarde was also said to be one of the victims. These rumors gained ready credence after the late horrible murders in Phoenix Park. When reliable Information was received, it was ascertained that no fresh onset had been made by assassins upon State representatives, but details of several murders came to hand. Sir H. Parkes was publicly entertained prior to his departure from Plymouth for Australia. In response to the toast of his health, he referred to the position of England with respect to her colonial empire. Sir Henry, in concluding his remarks, hinted that the separation of tho Australian colonies from Great Britain was a possible contingency. It has bee* definitely arranged that tho longdeferred visit of Oetowayo to England shall now take place. He is expected to land at Plymouth in the course of a month. The Government of Japan, dreading the projxvrat’on of ideas subversive to the existing order of things in that coun*ry, have issued an edict prohibiting tho delivery of lectures dealing with political topics. Aiahi Pasha is in possession of the plans which wore concocted some time ago by the Russian Government with a view of blocking the Suez Canal in case of war breaking out between Russia and England. It i» his Intention, in case England should forcibly interfere In Egypt, to avail himself of the Russian scheme. Meantime, he is actively fortifying Alexandria and

preparing for a desperate defence by propos a levy en mam of all the male population Egypt, The Spanish Government are strongly favor of the British occupation of Egypt. Th do not consider it desirable for the other Pow to intervene.