TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 7403, 24 December 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN. lliv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] [Kkdtbk's Teleobams.l . MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. "■ •*: . LONDON, December 23. (Received December 24, 1887, at 1.80 a.m.) • Consols aro quoted at 101|. New Zealand 4 per cents, firmly maintain tho last prices quoted. Tallow and breadstulTa are without alteration. The Bank rate is 4 per cent., and the market rate 3 per oent. The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be L 12,800,000, a decrease of L 40,000 during the week. Tho proportion of reserve to liabilities is 45 per cent., or 1 per cent, below last week's, A GUN FOR VICTORIA. LONDON, December 23. (Rcotlved December 24, 1887, at 1.25 a.m.) A disappearing gun built by Armstrong and Co. to the order of the Victorian Government was fired on Tuesday last. The trial was a complete success. THE COERCION ACT IN IRELAND. LONDON, December 23. Father Ryan has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment for inciting tenants to withhold payment of r.h«ir rents. THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. PARIS, December 22. The French Ministry have decided that France shall bo represented at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition provided the time for receiving exhibits is extended to March 1. THE CROWN PRINCE. BERLIN, December 22._ Advices from San Remo state that the health of His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince is improving, and that the inflammation of tho larynx is decreasing. [Special to Press Association.] LONDON, December 23. (Received December 24,1837, at 12.40 a.m.) Chilian copper is quoted at LB3 9s. Tin, unchanged* Glasgow pig-iron is at 435. The St. Petersburg University has been closed, owing to an outbreak among the students. It is rumored that Count Kalnoky, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has resigned, and that he will be succeeded by M. von Kallay, Minister of Finance. A syndicate, including Messrs Rothschilds and Sons and the Bank de Paris, has been formed in Paris for the purpose of maintaining the price of oopper for two years. The Fairfield Company are about to build three vessels of 3,000 tons each for the Vancouver-Japan line of mail steamers.