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New Zealand Mail, Issue 771, 10 December 1886, Page 25

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(REUTER’S TRLEGEAKE.)

London, December 2. The ■weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, fh9 proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 44 per cent, or 1 per ce'nt less than last week. The total reserve in notes and bullion is £11,400,000, a decrease of £200,000 for the week. Three per cent Consols have fallen -f per cent, and are quoted at lOlf ; New Zealand 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 102; 4|- per cent 5-30 loan, 99f ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 97. Colonial breadstuff's remain unchanged at previous quotations. London, December 2:

A serious fire broke out in Knight-rider-street, in this city, last night, and completely destroyed a block of warehouses, as well as the interior of St. Mary Magdalene’s Church. The loss caused by the conflagration is estimated at £IOO,OOO.

Mr John Morley, in addressing a '"‘■'‘Liberal meeting in Edinburgh last night, stated that he was in favor of the principle of self-government being extended to Scotland, but he declared that the establishment of an independent Parliament for that country was impossible. A grand review will be held at Aldershot in June next, to celebrate the Jubilee year of Her Majesty’s reign. The Agentß-General have conjointly telegraphed to their respective Governments with reference to the Imperial Institute scheme, stating that they are completely satisfied with the assurances of the Committee, and that a complete agreement has been arrived at. ;

London, December 6,

The anti-rent agitation in Ireland is increasing daily, and numerous meetings were held yesterday in different parts ©fthe country for the purpose of discussing - the question. Several prominent Irish members of Parliament, who were present, delivered speeches, in which they advocated the non-payment of rents without proper abatement being made by the landlords.

Serious rioting took place in Cork yesterday evening. The police charged the mob, wounding many of the rioters.

London, December 6.

Three per cent Consols have risen £ per cent, and are quoted at New Zealand 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 102; New Zealand 4£ per cent 5-30 loan, 99f-; New Zealand inscribed jptoek, 97. Colonial breadstuffs reni&ill unchanged at previous quotations. At the colonial wool auctions to-dhy, ,8400 bales were offered, the market being dull. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ganges arrived at Plymouth to-day. The homeward Australian mails per Orient steamer Potosi were delivered in London to-day, via Naples. Kio J aneieo, December 6.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s s.s. Doric, which left New Zealand on November 25, departed yesterday morning, her cargo of frozen mutton being in good condition.

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London, December 2. Sir Saul Samuel, in the course of a speech before the Boyal Society, advocated that kindred societies in the colonies should be affiliated to the Home Society. The Newcastle (N.S.W.) Municipal loan of £60,000, at 5 per cent, is announced. The minimum is fixed at 107, -and tenders will be opened on the sixth.

London, December 2

The frozen meat from Melbourne by the steamer Potosi is realising 4d per lb. The Arab rebels have retreated a hundred miles from Wady Haifa. The Mount Britten Gold Mining Company has been registered, with a capital of £135,000. The Northumberland Mining Company has also been successfully floated, the capital being subscribed fivefold. London - , December 4.

Nineteen hundred bags of Queensland sugar have been sold at from 12s 6d to 15s per cwt.

Wheat has further advanced 6d on the spot and Is on arrival of cargo. The Australian February-March shipment sold at 36s 6d. Flour is rising ; superfine quality is 25s to 265. The Chandernagore, which was reported to have foundered in a cyclone,, has arrived safely at Singapore. A meeting, which was summoned

for to-day at Ballymote, Ireland, has been prohibited under the proclamation recently issued against meetings called for the purposes of intimidation.

The Queen has requested Sir Saul Samuel to thank the Government of New South Wales for the nugget which was,presented to her, and Mr White for his emu eggs. London, Decembers.

Simpson’s torpedo exhibition has been presented to the Admiralty, who have expressed their surprise at Adelaide being able to produce such workmanship. A scheme is proposed for the amalgamation of the Colonial Institute and Royal Asiatic Society, with a view to the consolidation of colonial and Indian libraries and the exhibition of colonial and Indian art. ~

1 Sir G. Berry , writes to the press directing attention to the coming exhibitions in various colonies. London, December 6.

Tenders 'for the Newcastle (New South Wales) municipal loan of £60,000 at 5 percent, were opened to-day. The amount required was subscribed threefold at an average of £lO9 (?). The minimum was fixed at £lO7 (?).

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London, November 24.

Intelligence has been received that the Russian Government is exhibiting a desire to remove the Btrained feeling which has existed for some time past between Russia and China ; and, to secure the friendship of the latter Empire, it is announced that the Russian officers at Vladivostock have been ordered to do all in their power toward cultivating amicable relations with China. * November 25.

It is rumored that the German Government contemplate attempting to mediate between Russia and Bulgaria, and to bring about a' pacific settlement of the present dispute. ' ’■ Mr Bosisto has arranged for the affiliation of the Melbourne Art Schools with the South Kensington School of Art. The man Drew, who was arrested in Sydney in July last after a sensational chase, during which the accused attempted to make his way out of the harbor in a yacht, has been tried on the charge upon which he was arrested, namely, embezzling a large sum of money from a firm of solicitors in Norwich; and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. - ’

Sir Frederick Abel has been appointed Organising Secretary to the Imperial Jubilee Institute. •* *

November 28.

A considerable amount of surprise has been oocasioned in diplomatic circles by the official announcement of the fact that the Sultan of Turkey has conferred a high military honor and” decoration: upon General Kaulbars, the special Russian Ambassador in Bulgaria, twho visited Constantinople whilst en route to St. Petersburg for the purpose of reporting to the Czar upon the condition of affairs in the Balkan State.

More than ordinary activity is being displayed by dynamiters in America, with the immediate result that O’Donovan Rosa, the well-known leader of the movement, has been deposed owing to the want of activity which he has Latterly shown in the affairs of the organisation. -