TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 7432, 30 January 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! (Special to Press Association.] MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, January 28. (Received January 30, 1888, at 1.35 p.m.) Consols have advanced to 102 J. New Zealand 5 per cents., 103|. Tallow : Mutton, 27s 6d ; beef, 24s 6d. There is good inquiry for woolled sheepskins. The copper market is active, and tin has an upward tendency. Australian is quoted at LI6S. Pig-iron is at 40s, but the market is depressed. The sugar market is inactive; German; 15s 9d per cwt. The wheat market is weak. Australian (ex warehouse), 4s 9J, and sellers ask Is loss for the new crop ; New Zealand longberried, 33s 6d; New Zealand flour, 235.

Russian and Indian shipments are light. THE FRANCO ITALIAN TREATY. PARIS, JanuAry 28. Premier Tirard is hopeflil of a satisfactory settlement of the terms of the commercial treaty with Italy. THE NEW HEBRIDES. PARIS, January 28. M, Flourens and Lord Lytton have signed the rules of the mixed commission for the control of the New Hebrides. RETREAT OF THE ABYSSINIANS. MABSOWAH, January 28. The Negus of Abyssinia has retreated with his troops to Gundet, some distance to the southward of his former position. ANOTHER THEATRE BURNT DOWN. MADRID, January 28. The Varieties Theatre in this city has been destroyed by fite. A MUNIFICENT DONATION. LONDON, January 29. Mr Ramson Fox at Harrowgate has presented New South Wales with L 30,000 for the purpose of erecting a royal college of music there. ALLEGED LIBEL.

LONDON, January 28. The ‘ Bat ’ newspaper has accused Lord Durham of cruelty and brutality, and a summons for libel has been issued against the proprietors. A SIGN OF THE TIMES. NEW YORK, January 29. The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America has decided to permit marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, MUZZLING THE NATIONALISTS. DUBLIN, January 29. Mr Coxman has been sentenced at Ennis to four months’ hard labor for being concerned in a meeting which had been proclaimed. Notice of appeal was given.