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New Zealand Mail, Issue 753, 6 August 1886, Page 24

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London, July 28. Consols 10s lower, 101-s. New Zealand securities—s per cent 10-40 loan, 103-9-; per cent 1879-1904 loan, 101 £ ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 98. Bank rate, 2\ per cent; market ‘ rate, I*. ~, .. , . Breadstuff's. —Adelaide wheat, ex store, 4961b5, 34s 6d ; New Zealand wheat ditto, 28s to 32s 6d, according ! to grade; Adelaide flour, ox store, 2801bs, 245. ; Tallow. Australian fair average quality—Beef, cwt, 25s ; mutton, cwt, f' 275. London, July 29. Three per cent. Consols and New Zealand securities maintain yesterday’s j prices. The bank rate of discount remains at 2% per cent., and the market rate 1\ per cent. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be £11,900,000, an increase of £400,000 during the week. During the same period, the proportion of reserve to liabilities has i advanced by 2 per cent, to 4 per cent. London, July 30. It is announced that Sir Thomas j Brassey and Sir Michael Bass have | "been raised to the peerage.. A large party of colonists paid a visit to-day to Canterbury, where they were entertained at lunch by the Mayor. A number of the visitors were subsequently received at the Cathedral by the Archbishop, while another party proceeded to uhatham to inspect the fortifications. London, July 30. The death is announced of the Abbe Franz Liszt, the celebrated Hungarian pianist; aged 75 years Three per cent. Consols, lulls • JNew Zealand securities unchanged. The market rate of discount is 1* per cent, or 1£ below the Bank rate. Tallow, sixpence lower; beef, of fair average quality, 24s 6d per cwt; mutton, 26s 6d. ■ The total quantity of wheat alloat for the United Kingdom is 1,800,000 quarters, or 30,000 quarters less than last week. New Zealand frozen mutton has fallen in value, and is now 4|d to 5d per lb. . London, August 1. Serious rioting again occurred at • Belfast last evening between Orangeden and Nationalists. The rioters opposed the police, who were called out to quell the disturbance, by stonethrowing, and the police fired and killed one and wounded many others. The rioters were at length dispersed, and by midnight all was quiet in the city. London, August 2. The colonial recipients of honors in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition were formally invested with their orders, at Osborne, to-day, by Her Majesty the Queen. The proceedings were on a grand and imposing, scale. _ ' London, August 3. - The mails ex Orient Company’s B.M.S. Garonne, dated Melbourne, June 25th, were delivered here yesterday, via Naples. (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, July 29. M. de Le3«eps’ report on the Panama Canal shows a balance of 241,000,000 francs. He pledges himself to open the eanal in 1889. London, July 30. Mr Leslie White has been appointed Belgian Consul at Adelaide. x The meat ex the steamer Orient is Jjeing sold at 4|d. _ . The parents ef the girl Eliza Armjßtrong, who was connected with the arecent abduction cases, have entered an action against the proprietors of the Pall Mall Gazette, claiming LBOOO damages. 8 London, August 1. The Southern Queensland Pastoral >v Company has been registered, with a capital of L 400,000. The Metropolitan Coal Company, 01 Sydney, has been announced, with a .capital of L 300,000. The deaths in Labrador are much fewer, but horrible cannibalism still | prevails. Yielding to high official pressure, r Mr Bosisto accepts the Companion--1 ship of St. Michael and St. George. The Exhibition will be closed on the 9th November. . j; Australian wines are selling freely ; at the Exhibition. Mr James Service has arrived. . Mr Bosisto will inspect the vine- ;

yards of Erance and Spain in Septem* b e r. ... The wheat market is inactive, and prices are unchanged. The harvest prospects are favorable, but English crops are below the average. Heavy English hop crops are expected. The American crops are an extensive failure, and New York prices have doubled. London, August 3.

An agitation threatening separation is on foot in Catalonia, a province in the north-east of Spain, as a protest against the Anglo-Spanish treaty. The agitation threatens to culminate seriously. . , Eighty-one thousand persons visited the Exhibition yesterday. The Canadian officials disbelieve the statements received from Labrador respecting the straits of the inhabitants, and refuse to send assistance. (AGE SPECIALS. —UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Per s.s. Rotomahana, at the Bluff.) London, July 20. Owing to the Btrained relations that at present exist between Germany and France, M. Coursel has resigned his position as a French Ambassador to Berlin. It is probable that M» Waddington will be appointed to the position vacated by M. Coursel, and that the latter will fill M. Waddiogton’s place in LonBaron Miklonho Maklay, the well-known Russian exp’orer, has undertaken the management of a scheme for founding a Russian colony in New Guinea. Up to the present 240 intending Russian emigrants have been enrolled. . In the voting throughout the electorates of Great Britain at the general elections, the Conservatives and Unionist-Liberal parties polled an aggregate majority of 76,000 votes over the total number recorded in favor of the candidates who came forward as .sup* Dorters of Mr Gladstone’s Home Rule policy. F July 21.

A conference has been arranged to take place at Gaatein in August between the Emperors William of Germany and France Joseph of Austria. The Rev Dr Robert Newton Young has been elected President of the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Political offenders will be excepted from the operation of the amended extradition treaty now under consideration by the Governments of Great Britain and the United States, and the professed object which is included within the scope of the treaty, that persons guilty of using dynamite and other explosives .by the exemption of political offenders in the amended treaty, will be probably rendered utterly valueless to England. _ , The Rev Mr Lawes, a New Guinea missionary who is now visiting England, has written a letter to The Times, in|which he advocates granting assistance to Mr Forbes the explorer, to enable him further to pursue his researches in New Guinea. July 23

Baron Miklonho Maklay disputes the right of the German Government to the territory which they claim in the island, and it is stated that on landing in New Guinea for the purpose of founding a Russian colony, he will proclaim a Russian protectoral e over that part of the island. The Russian press condemns the German Government for its apathy with regard to colonisation of New Guinea. The Times states that the majority of the Executive Commissioners for the colonies of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition support the Congress of Chambers of Commerce in opposing the proposition that the site for the projected Colonial Museum and Permanent Exhibition should be at Kensington. The Times farther states that it will not be necessary for the colonies to contribute annually towards the maintenance of the Exhibition, but that a lump sum at the outset would be all that would be needed. Five colonists have guaranteed £SOOO each to support the institution. Jnly 25.

A Russian fleet ia now menacing Chullforfc, an island at the entrance of the Yellow Sea, about sixty miles south of Corea. The Prince of Wales, being unable himself to accept the invitation offered him to visit Australia, desires that his eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, should be ashed to perforin the opening ceremouy at the Jubilee Exhibition to Adelaide next yean Canada is sending some excellent exhibits. The scheme for the formation of a ship canal between Liverpool and Manchester baa collapsed. A number of colonial visitors were entertained on board the Euphrates at Spithead. Sir Graham Berry, who responded to the toast of the colonies, aluding to the negotiations which have lately been in progress, with the view of establishing naval federation, said it was probable that federation of this character would be the precursor of the political federation of the Empire. The decree of divorce in the case Crawford v. Dilke has been confirmed. Sir Charles Dilke has published a farewell address to his late constituents, in which he states that he is sensible of the fact that his political career ha 3 for ever closed, bat he still protests his Innocence of the charges laid against him. The Times, in commenting on the ease in a leading article, alludes to the effrontry of Sir Charles Dilke during.the time the case was pending, and says it is certain that his name will be removed from the list of Privy Councillors, for he has been convicted of wholesale perjury, and of suborning witnesses. It was necessary, the Times farther declares, that the Crown should carefully consider whether Sir Charles Dilke should not be prosecuted. It expresses a belief that the exposure of his conduct has been so complete that he will take an early convenient opportunity of quitting the country, The Pall Mall Gazette, alluding to the case says, there is a likelihood that the idea at present entertained of his guilt will be diminished, but it insists that the woman Fanny, who would have been the best material witness, but who disappeared mysteriously, should be found ; and Sir Charles” Dilke should either prosecute the respondeat, Mrs Crawford, for slander, or himself be indicted /or perjury. The Press is

} unanimous in condemning Sir Charles Dilke I in connection with the case, July 25. \ Baron Maklay, who was reported to have 1 been commissioned by the Russian Goverui m ent to proceed to German New Guinea, for the purpose of founding a Russian colony, has written a letter to The Times denying that.his Government had any intention of establishing such a colony. Baron Maklay, however, adds that he proposed to visit New Guinea shortly to forward a private autonomous settlement, which has been projected by some Russians. Mr Whiffen has been appointed official liquidator of the Commercial Bank of South Australia. The Court refused to sanction the continuance of Mr Fleydel, manager, of the London branch of the Bank, iu the position of liquidator.