TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 7248, 27 June 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

ROME AND FOREIGN.

|BY KI.KCTKKI TKLKURAHfi— Uol'VHlttH*.] [Rkutfr's Telegrams.]

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, June 24. Consols are at 101 J. New Zealand Government securities are unchanged. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,730,000 quarters, or 10,000 quarters less than last week, The wheat afloat for the Continent is 730,000 quarters. Adelaide wheat is at 35s 6d; Adelaide flour, 6d lower—viz., 355. New Zealand wheat—lowest qualities 345, highest qualities Is lower, viz., 365. Scotch pig iron is la higher, at 455. LONDON, Junk 25. Juno 27,1887, at 12 16 a m.) Consols are J lower—viz., 101 jj. The market rate of discount is 1J per cent., or £ per cent, below the minimum Bank of England rate. New Zealand 4 per cont. insoribed stock is at 98i.

Colonial breadstuffa are unchanged at previous quotations.

Australian beef tallow (average quality) is at 22s Gd; mutton, 275. New Zealand prime mutton is selling at 3fd to 4d.

A STATE DINNER LONDON, June 26, (Received June 27. 1887, at 12 60 am.)

A State dinner is to be given to-night at Windsor Castle, at which King Christian and other royal princes will be present.

THE LIBERAL PARTY. LONDON, June 26,

Addressing a meeting at Manchester last night t))e Marquis of Hartington declared that the reunion of the Liberal party at the present juncture was impossible, but he expressed his willingness tq enter on a conference on the Bubject if Mr Gladstone should propose such a conference at some future date.

AUSTRIA 4UD SERVIA. VIENNA, June 23,

King Milan of Servia has arrived in this city on a formal visit, which is intended to counteract the Austrian distrust of the new Servian Cabinet which has been formed under the leadership of M. Risties, a supporter of Russia.

[Special to Press Association.]

LONDON. June 24,

Mr E. Langton, of Melbourne, has contracted to sell Mr Joseph Clarke's Island Block claim.

A company with a capital of L 50.000 is being formed to take over the Blue Spur claitns in Otago.

Mr Mitchell, a Victorian at Trinjty College, has along with three others been bracketed as a senior wrangler. Lord and Lady Carnarvon sail for Australia early in September. June 25. (Received Juno 27, 1887, at 1.25 a.m.) A German loan of 238,000,000 marks is announced, with which it is intended to construct the Baltic Canal and construct the military railways. The Australian Town and Country Land and Mortgage Company, with a capital of a million, is announced, and the first call upon the shareholders will be half a million. An influential directorate has been elected.

It is stated that a shipment of war munitions has been sent from San Francisco to Honolulu.

The Russian Government will shortly commence the construction of a railway from Siberia towards the North Pacific Ocean, the work to be completed in five years. The wheat market is inactive, and there is a tendency among buyers to favor cargoes on the spot. Australian cargoes on the spot are 6d lower than last rates, and off-coast cargoes are unchanged. Two cargoes have been sold for shipment for America, but the principal sales have been for the Continent. The weather lately has ben very cold, but there has been no rain.

LONDON, June 26,

(Received Juno 27, 1887, at 12.10 p.m.)

A dangerous anti-German demonstration has taken place at Paris in favor of the Alsatians recently imprisoned for treason. The mob made tumultuous cries for General Boulanger. The P. and 0. Hydaspeß, which went ashore at the Gulf of Suez, has been floated off uninjured. (Reoeived June 27,1887, at 12.30 p.m.)

Considerable comment has been occasioned by a statement published in the ' Citizen' that the Queen intends to apply to Parliament for a reimbursement of the Jubilee expenses.

The Government arc considering the offer of the Canadian Pacific Company to establish three steamer services from Vancouver to Australia, China, and India. The subsidy asked is L 50.000.

Admiral Erskine, late commander of the Australian station, is dead. Newsbury and Vautin's chlorine process of extracting gold from ores has been patented, and a company, with a capital of L 30.000, is being formed to work it. The Gympie Great Eastern Mining Company is being privately floated with a capital of L 210,000. Tho Australian Town and Country Mortgage Company has been floated with a capital of L1,00>,000. Shares up to half the amount of the oa'pital are to be issued. The Queen accepted Mr Stuart Cumberland's (the thought reader) book on "The Queen's Highway." Mr Joseph Coweu, formerly member for Noweastle-on-Tyne, is desirous of reentering Parliament,

INTERCOLONIAL

Hv Klkctkio Telegraph.—Copyrioht.] (Rhdtbb's Telegrams.]

PERSONAL. MELBOURNE, June 26. (H.«Mlvod Juno 27,1887. at 1.60 a.m.)

The Victorian branch of the Imperial Federation League entertained Lord Brassey at a banquet last night.

THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. SYDNEY, Junk 25.

Eliza Hunter, one of the victims cf the Hawkesbury railway accident, died to-day from the effects of her injuries.

DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS, SYDNEY,' June 25.

Human remains have been found at Berniaguj, arid they are supposed td be those of Lainont Young's party, whiph disappeared seven years ago and has not sinco been heard of.

AN ACCIDENT. BRISBANE, June 25,

Two Volunteers were seriously wounded to-day by tho bursting of the oharge of a gun during praotioe at the encampment now being held.

SUICIDE OP A WELL-KNOWN ■' SPORTSMAN. ■■ • MELBOURNE, June 27. (Received June 27,1887, at 1 p.m.) Mr Thomas Chirnside, of Werribee Park, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself with a gun while in a state of insanity.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, June 27.

Tb,e (Jourt awarded LI,IOO in Rhodes's compensation ease fop lsnd taken by the Government. ' "' ' <

Judge Richmond this morning sua ponded the discharge of three bankrupts': for three months ; not for any particular default, but he Said to discountenance debtofs rushing into 1 the Bankruptcy Court. ' W. B.' Waters's discharge' "was opposed by his creditors on a large number of grounds. In examination he admitted owing the Northern Land Company about

Ll5O, for which they had received no value. This was compromised, but he did not furnish a shilling of the money, He also owed the City Advance Company about L 1,500. The examination on the latter point was not pressed, because, it was hinted, a case might arise out of it in another Court,

INVERCARGILL, June 27,

Mrs Clifton, formerly well known in theatrical circles as Fanny Sara, died to-day after a short illness. She was one of the most popular vocalists in Invercargill, and was greatly respected.