HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 6760, 27 November 1884, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[By Electric Tblkobaph—CoJTßiaHT.] [Rkutkb'b Tblegbams.] MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, November 25. (Reoelved November 27,1881, »t 1 a.m.) Consols remain at 101. New Zealand securities are at the following quotations:—Five percent. 10-40 loan, 104|; 4J per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 104|; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100£. Tho markets for colonial breadstuffs and tallow are without quotable change. THE WOOL SALES. LONDON, November 25. The wool market continues firm. At today's sale 10,700 bales were citalogued. THE RECIDIVATE QUESTION. LONDON, November 25. (Rccolved November 26,1881, at 7.10 p.m.) A Parliamentary Blue-book has been issued to-day relating to the recidiviste question and the negotiations which have taken place thereon between the French and English Governments. Among the latest despatches is one by Lord Lyons, British Minister at Paris, announcing that in the course of an interview which he had on October 15 with M. Ferry the latter declared that the French Government were desirous of acting in a neighborly spirit -with regard to the Australasian colonies, and proposed that negotiations should be instituted for an extradition treaty applicable to criminals escaping from New Caledonia. In replying to this proposal Lord Derby stated that ho deemed it inadequate to satisfy the demands of the colonies, and that no decision could be given until the colonial authorities had been consulted. He believed, however, that the colonies would prefer to pass enactments of their own to exclude criminals from their shores.