TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 7355, 29 October 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(By Elkotbxo Telegeaph.--Coptrioht.l [Reuter’s Telegrams. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, October 27. (Received October 28, 1887, at 10.80 p.m.i Consols remain at 102g. New Zealand inscribed stock is still quoted at par. Tlie bank rate of discount is 4 per cent., and the market rate 3J. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show tho total reserve in notes and bullion to be L 12 ,100,000, an increase of L 400,000 during the week. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 45 per cent., as against 44 per cent, last Tliursday. There is no change to report in colonial breadstuffs or tallow.

BOEHM’S STATUE OF THE QUEEN, LONDON, October 27. (Received October 28, 1887, at 10.25 p.m.)

A number of leading colonists now in London, at the invitation of Sir Saul Samuel, to-day inspected the statue of Her Majesty executed by Boehm to the order of the Sydney Government.

PRINCE FERDINAND.

SOFIA, October 27

The new Sobranje was opened in state today by Prince Ferdinand, who was accorded a great ovation.

THE FRENCH WAR OFFICE SCANDAL. PARIS, October 27. (Received October 28,1887, at 10.25 p.m.)

The Chamber of Deputies has appointed a Select Committee to inquire into the charges made against General Caffarel and M. Daniel Wilson in connection with the recent War Office scandal.

COERCING THE ZULUS. CAPE TOWN, October 27. (Received October 29, 1887, at 1.40 a.m. News from Natal states that Hia Excellency Sir Arthur Havelock has started for Zululand with strong military support to enforce the submission of Dinizulu. HOSTILITIES IN THE SOUDANSJJAKIM, October 27. (Received October 23, 1887. at 1.40 a.m.) A sharp slfinpis!) h&s taken plq.ee ip tjip neighborhood of Wqdy Jfalfo. |t has bepu found necessary, owing to t)ie appearance of large bodies of dervishes in the surrounding district, to reinforce tlje garrison of Wady Haifa to a considerable extent.

[Special to Press Association.]

LONDON, October 27

(Received October 28,1887 at 10.15 p.m.)

It is reported that Lord Randolph Churchill succeeds the Marquis of Lansdown as’G'oversor-Ceneral of Canada, Baron De Wohi,a i« h)8 speech at Liverpool announced that all the powers concerned had joined the Bounties Conference, Sir F, D. Bell intends to press for the settlement of the -recidiviste question, and to ajsji fr,r p he creation of a court to settle all land disputes in the Uey Hebrides. 'The'CcHouial Institute nas'ret|Uei<ted the English Govermiient to Co-Operate with the 'colonies in despatching an antarctic expedition.

October 28, (Received October 29. i 887,' at I8;30'p.;i;.) ‘

Bank of New Zealand shares are quoted at’iiit*. The ‘Gaily News 1 thinks tlVcSre' io no cause for alarm at the "on-declaration of a dividend by the'bank. The ‘ sjtandjnj U; is e.vidept' that the Colony' fa going frqm bad to y/orsp. ‘ ' ‘ ColopmA stocks gfp wpkey. The poHoc have p»bj>sbcd * cfory copnccting the supposed member of the Gael Society, upon whom an inquest was recently held, with a man named Miller, who arrived at Boulogne in April to arpahgc'.a jihfiaa J outrages during the Jubilee ,celebrations.' \pwing‘]W y/arJnuS of the nolice, however, Jje peyer visi.teci England. Miller ww employed by Melyjlle ofhers as agent for eontomplsdcp PJftnj.gca op 6fr Balfour. The police olevoriy d%e4 PVPFV conspirator in England, Paris, Boulogne, and Amsterdam. The match between Teemer and Gaudaur o t t JyajfO Narancook was postponed, the vVater being top roiigh. ' .Germany will defray the cpst of decoppt|pg ifs court ai fffie ' Me.fbourn3 bitien, Tli.e Pftbipct of ivfridricl lifted ".to appoint a eornmisPiiiy i ; P fi-lTMJgfi f ov ' l collection of Spanish and PhilipjMPS ts|Si»4 exhibits to bo on show at the Exhibition. Mr Jefferson Davis has reviewed 30,000 veterans at Macon, North Carolina

T&tf’S'Wntiridge University orator, when eOSiferping t’Ti.c derrpo of Master of Arts on Professor jLiverjedge, to the latter’s signal KrV'lee? (-.9 % P a »*P of science.

It has been decided not to open the Lord Mayor's fund for the unemployed ; Sir It. HaVsoa auv>„ef! ihs increase of local relief instead.