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New Zealand Mail, Issue 674, 30 January 1885, Page 19

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REUTER’S TELEGRAMS . ':; s p UNION BANK DIVIDEND. London, January 21. The TJnion Bank of Australia has declared a dividend for the past halfyear at the rate of 16 per cent per annum, and carries forward and places . to reserve £39,000. ARRIVAL OF MIRZAPORE.

Arrived, at Plymouth —P. and O. steamship Mirzapore, from Melbourne (December 4.) ENGLISH MARKETS. London, January 21. Consols have advanced to 99f. New Zealand securities are unchanged. The market rate of discount has further fallen to 3-f per cent. The Bank rate is 5 per cent. Adelaide wheat, ex store, has declined to 38s; New Zealand ditto remains at 30s to 36s ; and Adelaide flour, ex store, at 265.

Australian tallow : Average quality beef, 34s ; ditto mutton, 365. The catalogue at to-day’s wool sale comprised 10,000 bales. The market is less irregular.

London, January 22. Consols remain at 99-J. The Bank rate remains at 5, and the market rate at 3f- per cent. The Bank reserve is £13,000,000, an increase of £900,000 daring the week. The proportion of the same to liabilities is 43 per cent. At to-day’s wool auction 8400 bales were offered. The sale was steady* but the demand not active. Since the opening of the series 3400 bales have been withdrawn from sale.

There are no changes to report in colonial breadstuffs or tallow.

London, January 23. Consols remain at 99|-. New Zealand Government securities are unchanged. Colonial — Adelaide wheat, ex store, 38s; New Zealand ditto, 30s to 36s ; Adelaide flour, 265. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,210,000 quarters. Australian tallow, average quality— Beef, 34s ; mutton, 34s 6d. Wool —At to-day’s auction prices were steady, but the demand not active. The catalogue comprised 7900 bales. New Zealand mutton, prime quality, is quoted at 5d to sjd. London, January 26. Consols have fallen to 99£. New Zealand securities are unchanged. Breadstuff's have declined about Is all round. Adelaide wheat, ex store, is now quoted at 375, and New Zealand ditto, 29s to 3os. Adelaide flour, ex store, 25s 6d.

The market- rate of discount has further fallen to 3£ per cent. The bank rate is 5 per cent. At to-day’s wool sale 10,900 bales were offered. The market is firmer for fine to finest qualities. EGYPTIAN LOAN. London, January 23. After further consideration the Cabinet has decided to accept the French counter proposals on the basis of parleying proceeding thereon. The Cabinet offers to guarantee the required loan for Egypt, but rejects the principle of a multiple control of tee Powers in that country. NEW GUINEA. _ January 24. The Daily News to-day states that England intends to annex the whole of the southern part of New Guinea. A sharp rise has taken place m nearly all colonial corporate stocks. WOOL SALES. London, January 24. At to-day’s wool sales 7300 bales were offered. The market is firm, but all descriptions of inferior and faulty wools are dull. London, January 2b. Arrived, at Plymouth —Lusitania, from Melbourne (December 12). THE VICTORY’S MEAT. London, January 26. The of 7000 carcases of frozen mutton from New Zealand, ex steamship Victory, has been landed in good order.

PACIFIC ANNEXATION. No confirmation has yet been received of the report that an AngloGerman Conference is to take place on the Pacific annexation question.

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FIJI GOVERNMENT. London, January 22. Sir George Des Vceux, Governor of Fiji will return to England in February, and the Hon. J. B. Thurston, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Fiji, who is at present on a visit to England, will return as soon as possible to administer the Government. London, January 22. It is understood that the Hon. J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji will leave on his return to Fiji about the end of March. From the time Sir George Des Vceux, Governor of Fiji, leaves until the arrival of Mr Thurston, the affairs of tbe islands will be under., the control of the _ "Receiver-General, Dr AV. MacGregor, C. LONDON CHARTERED BANS. Mr Robert Lamdale has joined the London Board of the London Chartered Bank. PACIFIC CONFERENCE.

It is rumored that the conference respecting the Pacific will be held in ,- and that it will lead to mutual intercourse between Germany and England respecting these islands. L & GERMAN MAIL SUBSIDY. ; ' The Committee of the German Reichstag have recommended the subsidising of an African-Australian line of steamers. NO RENT. Mr Parnell, speaking at Cork, urged the laborers and farmers to pay no rent, and also urged the protection of Irish industries. ORIENTAL BAIjTX DIVIDEND. jffc'iis expected that the dividend in * ' the Oriental Bank estate will be paid in a fortnight. It is believed that the Victorian Government claims against the l Oriental Bank estate will be settled by the payment of twenty shillings in

in the £, without interest. AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. A third of the shares in Mr Reginald Brett’s Financial Company of Adelaide have been subscribed. The prospects of the company are encouraging. GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN. • If a commission is appointed to consider German-British interests in the Pacific, the Hon. J. B. Thurston, ■VC.M.&., will probably be appointed to represent England. AUSTRIAN CRIMINALS. London, January 23. j The Austrian authorities are inquir- ; ing into the advisableness of establish- - ing a trans-ocean settlement. FROZEN MEAT. London, January 25. k by the steamer Victory, join New Zealand, is realising sid . NEW* FINANCIAL COMPANY. The whole of the shares in Mr Reginald Brett’s Financial Company of Adelaide have already been subscribed for, but the list will remain open until Wednesday next.

FIJI AND NEW GUINEA. London, January 24.

Sir William McArthur has entertained the Hon. J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, at a banqnet. Lord Derby considers that any future action taken by England in regard to annexation will much depend upon the liberality of the colonies in the matter. Sir Saul Samuel is urging the necessity for a complete jurisdiction being established over New Guinea. THE ORIENTAL BANK.

Mr Thomas A. Welton, liquidator in the Oriental Bank estate, offers to settle the Victorian claims by paying 20s in the £ without interest.

BISMARCK AND ANNEXATION. Prince Bismarck is opposing the stringency of the annexation rules as proposed by England. The matter is to be brought before tbe forthcoming conference on Pacific affairs. EGYPTIAN FINANCES. The Observer states that England assents to the French proposals regarding the Egyptian finances, with the exception of that relating to the immediate appointment of a Financial Inquiry Committee. The Government of the Transvaal have concluded a commercial treaty with Germany GERMANY AND AFRICA.

Germany has annexed North Sierra Leone, on the West Coast of Africa. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, will preside a-t the February dinner of the Empire Club. MURDERER ARRESTED. London, January 26. The Cape authorities have succeeded in arresting the murderer of Mr Bethell, Chief of the Frontier Police in Bechuanaland. AMERICAN SUBJECTS.

The American Government are pressing the claims of American subjects in Fiji upon the English Government. LONDON WOOL MARKET. Messrs Bethune and Hunter have received the following telegram from Dalgetty and Co. (Limited), re progress of London wool saleslncreasing demand. Prices somewhat higher.” POSTAL CONFERENCE. London, January 26.

Mr Cashel Hoey, C.M.G., who was to have represented Victoria at the Lisbon Postal Conference, will be unable to be present. Mr Corbett will therefore represent Victoria instead.