HOME AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIII, Issue 225, 25 October 1887, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

AND_ By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AUSTRALIAN MIXING VENTU&EB. RUSSIA AND HER IMPORT DUTIES. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. r (SMJOIAIi TO DNITBD JTR"S3 ASSOCIATION.) London. n ct 22. The wheat market has & rlsiDg tendency. Quotations for A uetrali an con* signrnents are unchanged. American shipments are light, but those from Russia are abundant. The flour market ia firm, but the demand is quiet. Ran ia is likely to remit 20 per cent of the duties levied on English imports and 10 per cent on Frer.oh, beotuse England admits c >rn free and France only imposes a small duty. A syndicate is prepared to float the Chiltern Gold Mining Company of Australia. The International Copyright Con* vention has been ratified by the Powers. It is understood that one of the leading members of the Cabinet will preside at the Sugar Bounties Confer* ence. A Company to float the Kilkivan mines, Queensland, is announced with a capital of £120,000 The Newberry-Vautin Gold Extraction C >mpany has been registered with a capital of £100,000. The Peninsula Company's steamer Victoria has steamed from London to Bombay in 14 day* 11 hours. Messrs Matheson and Harvard's syndicate are arranging for a company to take over Black's mine, in Australia. The capital is £1,200,000.