CABLE NEWS.
HOME AND FOREIGN. Per Electric Telegraph — Copyright. United Press Asßoc'iati on. Received April 27, 10.15 p.m. London, Ap il 26. An Australian wheat cargo of 4000 quarters of April shipment has been sold for 33s 6d. Kiirain offers to present Lees of Australia with £IOO if the latter will box.him for £1000; tho former to use three ounce and Lees one ounce gloves. Aho shipping ring admit tho grievances complained of by shippers, but state that they are unable to comply with the demands of the latter owing to the contracts under which the ring are already bound and must fullll.
The weekly returns of the. Bank of England published to-day show tho total reserve in notes and bullion to he £13,100,000, and the proportion of receipts to liabilities 41 per cent.
The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,140,000 quarters, and for the Continent 490,000.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 28 April 1888, Page 2
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154CABLE NEWS. Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 28 April 1888, Page 2
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