SPECIAL CABLEGRAM.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1038, 18 August 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAM.

[from OUR OW>" correspondent.] London, August 15. New Zealand four per cent, consolidated debentures are quoted at 98. The Wellington six per cent, loan has been subscribed to three times the amount at the rate of LlO4. The corn market is fiat, heavy, and inactive. Foreign arrivals of wheat are very large. Australian wheat is neglected. Flour is quoted at from 33s to 365. At the wool sales price's remain without any noticeable alteration. 10,280 bales were sold to-day. The Speech, 011 the prorogation of Parliament, afiirmed that England's relations with foreign powers were cordial. The Berlin treaty, it asserted, was being faithfully executed. It urges to effect reforms. Amos Mackenzie, financier, io bankrupt, with liabilities amounting to a million. A riot has occurred at Curragh. The police were called out, and fired on the rioters. Sydney, August 16. For the Hawkesbury Guineas Falmouth was first, Gainsborough second, and Baronet third. A heavy detachment of police have been despatched from Sydney to Newcastle, in anticipation of lawlessness likely to arise owing to two hundred miners going from Adelaide to Newcastle to work the Willsend Mine, in opposition to the "Vendites.