SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7789, 8 November 1886, Page 5

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] QUEENSLAND GOLD MINING. London, November 4. The Etheridge Gold Mining Company, with a capital of £70,000, is announced. RUSSIA AND NEW GUINEA. London, November 4. The Russian Government consider that Baron Macleay's proposal to establish a Russian colony in New Guinea is impracticable, THE LIBERALS AND MR. GLADSTONE. London, November 4. The Liberal Conference, which is being held at Leeds, has expressed confidence in Mr. Gladstone. v THE BELFAST ELECTION.' London, November 4. The disputed election for Belfast West Division, and for which Mr J. W. Hasle.tt, Conservative, was elected, has been decided in favour of Mr. Thomas Lestor, Nationalist, who is, therefore, elected. THE GOVERNORSHIPS NEW YORK. London, November 4. Mr. Hewitt has been elected Governor of the State of New York. Mr. Henry George, who contested the office with him, obtained 67,000 votes. [beutbe's telegrams.] EMIGRATION TO THE COLONIES. London, November 3. Messrs. Hazell and Hodgkin, members of the committee of the Emigration Office, which has been established under the supervision of Her Majesty's Government, will sail- for Australia and New Zealand on the 6th instant. The object of their visit is to make inquiries into the emigration question, the establishment of offices, and the appointing of correspondents. THE CHARTERED BANK OP AUSTRALIA. London, November 3. The directors of the London Chartered Bank of Australia have declared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, and have carried forward and placed to the reserve fund £29,000. LONDON COMMERCIAL NEWS. London, November 3. Consols are 101. The market rate of discount is 3 J per cent. New Zealand 5 per cent. 10-40 loan is quoted at 101| ; the 4| per cent. 5-30 loan, at 99£; and the 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 97. Colonial breadstuff's remain unchanged. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 39 per cent., or 2 per cent, less than last week. The total reserve in notes and bullion amounts to £10,500,000. [PBESS association:.] London, November 4. The wool market is stagnant, and' prices are weaker. A slight reaction is considered possible. The frozen meat ex s.s. Iberia, from Melbourne, is realising 4d per lb. THE COPTIC. London, November 5. The Shaw, SavilJ, and Albion Company's Coptic, which left New Zealand on September 18, arrived at Plymouth yesterday evening, her cargo of frozen muttcn being in good condition.