TELEGRAPHIC.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXII, Issue 164, 14 July 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

HOME AND FOEEIGN *•' a

By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. TEE RUAPEHU AT PLYMOUTH. {' THE TASMANIAN LOAN. [ UNFAVOURABLE PROSPECTS OP THE HOP CROPS. London, July 12. The New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. '"Rua'pehii, from Lyttelton (June 3), arrived at Plymouth yesterday with a cargo of mutton of 15,030 carcases m good condition. Ninety-nine tenders for the Tasmanian Government loan of a million at 4 per cent minimum were opened to-day. The total amount offered was found to he £2,000,000. Tenders at £98 13s 6d will receive 38 per cent ; above that price m full. A meeting took place to-day between Sir G. Tapper, the Canadian Commissioner, and the AgentsGeneral of all the Australian Colonies, except New South Wales. Secresy was observed at the proceedings, but it is understood that nothing was decided with regard to the proposed telegraph cable across the Pacific. Accounts received from the hop g -owing districts, relative to the pro<pocba of this year's crop, are of a very unfavourable character. The Australian mails per Massili.i which left Melbourne on June Ist, were delivered to day via Brindisi July 13. Sir Thomas Brassey, m an address before the United Service Institution last night, counselled the Colonies to send delega'es to the Conference on Imperial defence.