LATEST CABLE NEWS.
[REUTER'S SPECIAL TO STAR.]
London, April 19.
News from Cape Town announces the arrival of the Empress Eugenic there.
The Queen has returned to Windsor Castle, and it is expected Earl Beaconsfield will tender to Her Majesty the resignation of himself and colleagues.
The homeward English mail, via Brindisi, was delivered in London on the 15th inst.
The' total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is .616,000,000.
Sir Stafford Northcote and the Right Hon. John Manners have been decorated with the Cross of the Order of the Bath.
Three per cent Consols are unchanged, at 971 ; 5 per cent New Zealand Loan (1869), 101 ; 4| per cent New Zealand Loan (1879 1904), 99£.
The market for breadstuffs is unchanged. Australian tallow remains at last quotations.
The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,910,000 quarters.
Adelaide wheat has declined Is, and is to-day quoted at 57b per 4961b5, ex warehouse.
The mai-ket for Adelaide wheat and flour is dull.
Australian tallow has advanced 6d per cwt, best beef being worth 32s 6d ; best mutton, 34s 6d. New Zealand wheat is quoted at 47s to 47s 6d per 5961b5, ex warehouse. The death of Dr. Keneally, M.P. for Stoke, is announced. Subscriptions have been opened for the balance of the Oamaru Waterworks Loan, to the amount of ,£89,000. Berlin, April 19. The Bill introduced by the Minister of War on the 22nd January last, for increasing the German army by 60,000 men, has passed. Constantinople, April 19. Said Pasha, the Grand Vizier, has advised the Sultan to summon the Turkish Parliament, but it is not yet known whether the advice has been compiled with.
Suez, April 19. The Orient Company's steamship Garonne, homeward bound, has arrived here. The Australian cricketers are passengers.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 3, 21 April 1880, Page 2
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