CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6238, 8 February 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND. FOREIGN.

(Reuters Special.) London, February Gth,

Consols are unchanged at 95§.

New Zealand securities remain at the following quotations:—Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 1041; 5 per cent. ISB9 loan, 104 ; 4i per cent! 1879-1904 loan, 101 J.

The market rate of discount has advanced to 5£ per cent. The bank rate is 6 per cent. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has declined to 555; New Zealand wheat remains at 535. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 48s.

Australian tallow: Best beef, 425; besi mutton, 48s per cwt.

A small portion of the cargo of frozen mutton brought by the steamship Cuzco was sold by auction to-day, and realised an average of Gd per pound. The meat is considered to have been badly prepared for shipment. The tqjal stock of tallow in London on the Ist inst. was 5500 casks.

Cairo, February Gth,

Mahommed Pasha, the new President of the Egyptian Council of Ministers, paid a visit to. day to the British representative, Sir E. B. Malet. In the course of the interview the Premier took occasion to reassure the British Ambassador with regard to the policy of the new Ministry. The Khedive received a deputation of officers of the army to-day, at which 600 were present. The officers tendered their thanks to his Highness for the confidence he had displayed in the National party, and assured him of the fidelity of the military forces. Later. It has transpired that the programme of the new Cabinet will be marked by a respect for existing international contracts, and by the fulfilment of the national debt budget engagements, as intimated by resolution recently passed by the Assembly of Notables. Aden, February 6th. Further intelligence is to hand fully confirming the fact of the outbreak against Turkish rule in the province of Yemen, Southern Arabia, and stating that the rebellion is assuming alarming proportions, and is rapidly spreading throughout the province.