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New Zealand Mail, Issue 767, 12 November 1886, Page 25

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(beuter’s telegrams.)

London - , November 3. Mr Edward Stanhope has made a » statement to the effect that Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of Natal, has -effected an agreement with the Boers whereby England shall establish a protectorate over Eastern Zulaland,, which shall be reserved to the Zulus, •• and the Boers shall retain "Western -Zululand. Messrs Hazell and Hodgkins, members of the Committee of the Emigrants’ Emigration Office, which has been established under the supervision of her Majesty’s Government, will sail for Australia and New Zealand on the 11th instant. The object of their visit is to make inquiries into the emigration question, the establishment of • offices, and the appointing of correspondents. 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 reserve the sum of . £20,000. Consols are quoted at 101. Market rate of discount, per cent. New . Zealand 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 101 f ; 4£ per cent 5-30 loan, 99£; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 97. Colonial bread- - stuffs remain unchanged. November 4.

The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to "be 39 per cent; 2 per cent less than last week. The total reserve in notes and bullion is £10,500,000. London - , November 5.

Tbe Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s s.s. Coptic, which left New Zealand on September 18, arrived at Plymouth yesterday evening, her •cargo of frozen meat being in good -condition.

London, November 5

The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,470,000 -quarters. Adelaide wheat is selling at 35s ; Adelaide flour, 245; New Zealand wheat (ex store), highest, 33s ; lowest, 28s.

Beef tallow, 24s 6d ; mutton tallow, 27s 6d; New Zealand mutton, 4d to Sd.

Colonial Government securities remain unchanged at previous quotations.

London, November 5

The Socialists have abandoned the idea of forming a procession to follow the Lord Mayor’s show on the 9th inst., and instead will hold a mass meeting in Trafalgar-square. London, November 6.

The Police authorities are making arrangements for preventing the mass meeting of Socialists which it is proposed to hold in Trafalgar-square on the occasion of the Lord Mayor’s ■show.

Per Australian arid New Zealand Shipping Underwriters’ Association. — Arrived —Ship Mary E. Russell, from Auckland, August 7th. Rio de Janiebo, November 8.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s s.s. Tainui left yesterday evening. Her cargo of frozen mutton was in good condition.

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London, November 3.

The Royal Commission, under the presidency of the Duke of Cambridge, to further the objects of the South Australian Jubilee Exhibition, bas been gazetted. Tbe P. and O. steamship Kaiser-i----lEEind came into collision with a barque in the Straits of Gibraltar. Lord and Lady Rosebery and the Duke and Duchess of Manchester were on board the steamer, but were mot injured. It is reported that Sir E. Napier Broome, Governor of VTestern Aus tralia, will succeed Sir G. C. Strahan as Governor of Tasmania, and that Sir <3-. "W". Des Yceux will be appointed 'Governor of Western Australia. Tbe Mercantile Bank, Melbourne, has opened an office here. Sir Graham Berry is Chairman of Directors, and Messrs Hardwood and Booter have been appointed Directors. Mr M. W. McOallum, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of Wales, Aberystwith, has been appointed Professor of Literature at the ■Sydney University. Mr McCallum was highly commended by Lord Aber•dare and Sir James Caird.

New Zealand new 4 per cents, are very depressed.

The Wool Sales Committee will, to-morrow, discuss the propriety of not admitting steamers with wool cargoes for sales, whose arrival may be telegraphed from Madeira or Gibraltar on the day of closing the list.

The Pall Mall Gazette has paid £2OO in settlement of the libel action brought against them by the parents of the girl Eliza Armstrong in connection with the abduction case.

London, November 4.

The Etheridge Reefs Company, with a capital of £70,000, is announced.

The Russian Government -consider that Baron Macleay’s proposal to establish a Russian colony in New Guinea is impracticable. The Liberal Conference, which is being held at Leeds, has expressed confidence in Mr Gladstone.

The disputed election for Belfast West Division, and for which Mr J. H. Haslett, Conservative, was elected, has been decided in favor of Mr Thomas Sexton, Nationalist, who is therefore elected. Mr Hewitt has been elected Governor of the State of New York. Mr George, who contested the office with him, obtained 67,000 votes.

London, November 5.

Mr Bosisto has been banqueted. Sir Graham Berry, Sir P. C. Owen, and Mr Davies was amongst those present.

Mr Henniker Heaton states that the German Lloyd’s Company have offered to carry Australian letters for 4s 8d per pound, and newspapers for 4d per pound, but tbe idea is ridiculed. The Cabinet will consider the proposals for the Government of New Guinea about tlie middle of November. Mr Stanhope holds that the subvention granted by the colonies toward the government of New Guinea is too small. He also thinks that an advance of £IOO,OOO ought to relieve England from further cost. The Duke of Connaught has been appointed to tbe command of tbe Bombay division of tbe Indian army. Mr H. M. Stanley, tbe explorer, will visit Australia in February. Mr Harold Finch-Hatton admits that a number of shaky goldmining companies are being foisted on the public. Mr Trilton, of Townsville, Queensland, and'"' Mr Broadhurst, M.P., have been instructed to confer with the colonial officials respecting the Queensland Separation movement. The Daily News states that the Government have threatened to withdraw police protection from those districts in Ireland where the landlords will not moderate their demands ; and, further, they will not permit the police to assist in evictions where the rents are considered excessive. Sir Redvers Bailer denies that the Government have refused to enforce evictions.

November 6.

Mr G. C. Levey’s mission to the Continent on behalf of the Adelaide Exhibition has been very satisfactory. Belgium proposes to vote £2OOO. Sir H. Sanford le’aves by the Orizaba in March. Two hundred and forty-two exhibitors have applied for 35,000 feet of space. Doctor Lindsay Johnston offers the Jubilee Exhibition £3O in prizes for honey and silk. Wheat is quiet and prices firm. English supplies are small and Australian scarce; prices unchanged. There is more inquiry on the Continent for foreign cargoes. The Bankruptcy Court refused to grant a discharge to Griesstiek, the colonial merchant, who lately failed. The following new mining companies are announced :—Redhill, Nelson, New Zealand, capital £150,000 ; Queen’s, Charters Towers,v Queensland, capital L 160,000. The Economist justifies the propriety of Sir Samuel Griffiths issuing an official warning on the subject of these mining speculations. London, November 6.

Professor MaeCallum, the recentlyappointed Professor of Literature at Sydney University, sails by the Orient.

The Mercantile Bank of Melbourne will commence operations here on the 15th inst.

Messrs Young and Lark, Australian merchants, who failed in January, 1884, have again stopped payment. On their first failure the firm agreed to pay 15s in the £, which the creditors accepted. The Standard announces that another instalment of 2s Id has been offered, making altogether a payment of 13s 4d in the £ on old debts. A meeting of creditors will be held on the 11th inst., when it is understood a similar offer will be made to the new creditors, viz., 15s in the £.

London, November 8.

The Prince of Wales has asked the Customs authorities to extend the concession grants to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, regarding the duty on exhibits to the Exhibition for the Imperial Institute. Mr Bosisto, President of the Victorian Commission, returns to Melbourne via Canada, early in December ; and Mr James Thomson, Secretary to the same Commission, sails by the Carthage.

The Times states that the Brennan torpedo has been definitely adopted. The Press generally comments on the absence of any reference in the speeeh of the Emperor of Austria before the Reichsrath to an AustroGerman alliance. The speech has been somewhat icily received in Vienna, and has created a serious impression in Berlin.

The St. Petersburg Novosti states that there is an increased feeling of danger regarding Continental affairs. Mr Louis Mallet, in a letter, expresses the opinion that New South Wales is the centre and hope of a Freetrade policy in Australia, and holds that it will be a matter for deep regret if any serious reaction in favor of Protection sets in.

November 8

Sir Graham Berry, in a paper read before the Colonial Institute, strongly favors Federation on a defence basis. He also holds that the Imperial foreign policy must include the effective protection of colonial interests, in the event of which the colonies would recognise with alacrity the necessity of sparing no expense to give effect to it. The Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Granville, and Sir Frederick Leighton will interview Lord Randolph Churchill with the object of asking for a grant of money for art representation at the Jubilee Exhibition. The “ Claimant ” has been arrested in New York for personating an army pensioner. A Russian spy has been arrested at Vancouver Island whilst sketching the harbors there.

November 9.

Mr Gladstone states that when the Irish proposals of the Government are submitted, will be the best time to reunite the Liberal Party. (AGE SPECIALS. UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Per s.s. Rotomahana at the Bluff.) London, October 26. At a meeting of the Exhibition Commissioners and the Agents-General, Sir Charles Tupper presided. Hearty votes of thanks were passed to the Prince of Wales for the deep interest he had taken in the Exhibition; to Sir Cunliffe Owen, the Secretary, for services he had rendered in connection with the Exhibition ; and to the people of England for the cordial welcome they had extended to the colonial visitors, and the generous hospitality with which they had treated them during their visit. Sir P. C. Owen responded, and stated that the Colonial and Indian Exhibition would practically be re-opened in June next under the name of the Imperial Jubilee Exhibition. The Prince of Wales was, he stated, anxious that the different colonies should re-appoint in connection with this institution the same managers as had represented them in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.