HOME AND FOREIGN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4095, 27 December 1887, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(BEDTER'S TEIEORAM3.) Received December 27, at 0.24 a.m. London, December 23. Consols are at 101^. New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock is at L9B.

The bank rate of discount is at 4 per oenl., and the market rate at 3 per ceDt. Adelaide wheat, ex store, per 4961b5, 34s 63 ; New Zealand wheat, ex store, per 496 ibs, 32s to 33s 6i, according to grade. Adelaide flour, ex store, per 2Solbs, 24i.

Australian beef tallow, average quality, 24i per cwfc., and mutton 24? 63. The total qumtity of wheat and floor afloat for the Uaited Kingdom is 1.480,000 quarters, and l"£> the Continent 2,190,000 quarters. Received D'cember 27, at 0 30 a.m. London, December 24. A treaty has been concluded between the Raratongan authorities and the British Government, whereby the former agrees not to cede, the island to any other power.

Count Haizfeldt, German Ambassador to the Court of St James, started suddenly for Berlin after conferring with the Marquis of Salisbury, who came to London especially for the purpose of an inter-' view with Count Hatzfeldt. The European situation is causing great uneasiness, and the complicated reports which are current only add confusion to the difficulty. The Russian Government have given no assurance regarding the movement of the troops in Poland, through Prince Lobanoff, Rneßian Ambassador to the Court of Vienna, nor has any explanation been made to General Schweini'z or Count Walkenstein, the German and Austrian Ambassadors at St. Petersburg. The New Zaaland Shipping Company's Rimutaka arrived at Plymouth to-day from New Zealand. Bucharest, December 24. The Chamber of Deputies voted 16,000,000J013. for the purpose of building forts and procuring armaments for Rjumauia. San Franoisco, December 26. Arrived—Union Company's Arawa, en route for New Zealand. Received December 27, at 1.30 a.m. ' St. Petersburg, December 25. Lord and L*dy Randolph Churchill arrived here yesterday from Berlin. His Lordship bad an interview with M. de Giers yesterday, and will be accorded an audience by his Majesty the Czir to-day. (special to press association.) Received Dtcember 26, at 1.30 a.m. London, December 22. A general strike has been ordered of the employees on the Philadelphia-Read-ing Railway, in consequence of the owners employing non-unionists. The strike will affect 65,000 men.