LATE TELEGRAM.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3708, 23 July 1884, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAM.

By Electric Telegbaph. — Copyright.

RBUTBR'S TELEGR^iyra. Received July 22, at 0 54 a.m. Melbourne, July 23.

The manager of the National Mortgage and Agency company of New

Zealand reports of che iocal grain market as follows : Wheat, per bushel, 3s lid ; the market is much steadier. Malting barley is dull, and heavy sorta are quoted to-day at 4s. New Zealand oats, feeding sorts, are without material change. The market if anything is weaker, and to-day's prices are 2-j lOd to 3a Id; milling sorts are in fair demand at 3s Id to 3s 3d. New Zealand oats, under bond, are slow of aye at 2^ Id to 2s sd.

Sailed, this afternoon — Dnion steamship Waihora, for the I.luff. London, July 21. Colonial breadstuff's and tallow are unchanged. Consols huvo declined to 100-|. New Zealand securities remain at last quotations.

The market rate of discount has fallen 1-J-, and is now |- below the bank rate.

•The homeward mails by way of Suez and Brindisi, per steamship Potosi, from Melbourne (June 12th), were delivered here to-day.

A popular demonstration in support the franchise reform movement was held in Hyde Park to-day, and wa3 attended by an enormous crowd of people — the number being estimated at one hundred thousand. The approaches to Lhe Park were blocked, aud the streets in the Wesi; End were impassable for hours; but no difficulty was experienced in tha maintenance of order.