HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 7332, 3 October 1887, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

i [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] MONETARY AND~COMMERCIAL. LONDON, October 1. (Received October 8,1887, at 1.40 n.m.) New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock has advanced by 10s to IOOJ. Adelaide wheat (ex store) remains at 33s 6d, and New Zealand at from 30s to 335, according to quality. Adelaide flour is at 235. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,630,000 quarters. The wheat afloat for the Continent amount to 233,000 quarters, Australian tallow : Beef, average quality, 22s Gd ; mutton, 23s 6d. New Zealand frozen mutton, of prime quality, remains at 4d per lb. At yesterday’s wool sales 99,000 bales were offered, and ts-day’s catalogue comprised 73,000 bales. No improvement in the demand is shown, and the market was steady but inactive. Inferior merino wools are IJd to 2£d lower than last sale’s closing rates; worsted fleece, to Id lower; and medium scoured lambs’, IJd to 2d lower. [Special to Tress Association,] LONDON, October 1. The Jockey Club at York have warned the Marquis of Ailesbury and John Tyler, his trainer, off the turf for life, owing to the suspicious running of the horse Everett in the Harewood Plate. The Jockey Club are satisfied that the Marquis has previously been guilty of unfair running. ‘ The Times’ considers that the Marquis should be excluded from the House of Lords. It is rumored that Sir P. C. Owen will, at the instance of the Prince of Wales, represent British exhibitors at the Melbourne Exhibition. Two hundred Russian officers, disguised as priests, are proceeding to Abyssinia to oppose the Italians there. The ‘ Guardian ’ states that if the New South Wales divorce law (Sir Alfred Stephens’s) is ipivetoed, the clergy have the right to refuse to re-marry divorced persons or allow them the rights of communion. The ‘Daily News’ considers it would be a serious step to veto the Divorce Bill, and would lead to grave complications. The wheat market is quiet, but there is a tendency to prices hardening, Australian shipments (ex store) are quoted at 33s 6d. For two off-coast cargoes no offers have been made. A loan of L 50.000 at 4 per cent, for the Borough of Redfern (New South Wales) wi[l be placed on the market pn the 10th inst. The minimum is fixed at 91. LONPON, OcropEE 2. (Received October 3,1857, at 11.J5 am.) Mr Minister, of Dumbarton, intends to build a yacht to pompete for the American Cup pext year. The Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce, after hearing Sir Graham Berry, have appointed a committee to arrange a collection of exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibition. The Treasury authorities have cabled to Lord Carrington in reference to the mail subsidy, pointing out that payment by weight is impracticable ; that they require a fixed proportion, and that possibly they will agree to England paying L 90,000 and Australia LBO,OOO. A syndicate is willing to purchase the Rockwell Silver Company’s mine at Silverton, New South Wales, for LIOO,OOO. The following have been appointed London directors of the Gippsland Goldmining Company : Messrs Archibald Arnott, i Charles Clark, and Alexander M‘Rae. Severe fighting has taken plaee in the 1 Sooloo Islands between the Natives and i Spanish troops, the latter coming off viej torious. j It is officially announced that the War > Office is willing to allow general officers to i : inspect the Australian forces every two | years. r j Rour Scotch whisky firms have called ! meetings of their creditors. Other firms are I expected to follow. Forty million ; gallons j of whisky are bonded in Scotland. | The beetroot crops of France and Germany i are smaller than usual, and the yield will be I immediately reduced, owing to the larger 1 ! area under cultivation, j The Emperor of Germany has ordered fhe i ! release'of young Schnaebell land the pay- ■ i ment of compensation to the widow of the | gamekeeper who was killed on the frontier. •j" An" Abyssinian force is advancing'to j attack Massowah before the Italian troops l • arrive.