CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6740, 21 September 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[15k Klkctmo Telegraph.— Uopxjhuht.]

(Jlkutek's Teleukajis.)

London, September in.

(Received September 20, at 4 p.m.)

Consuls are at 101|. New Zealand securities :—l'ive per cent. 10-40 loan, 103 (ex div.); v per cent. 1889 loan, 10GJ ; -i?, per cent. IS7O--1901 loan, 101$; 4 per cent, inscribed stocki 101.

. The Colonial breadstuffs market has further declined. Adelaido wheat (ox store) is quoted at -15a Gd; New Zealand wheat (ex store) at 40s to 445; Adelaido flour (ex store), 335. Australian tallow remains at 40a for beat beef, and 41s best mutton.

Scotch pig-iron, No. 1 (f.o.b. in the Clyde), is quotod at 47s Od—a decline of 20s per ton. Galvanised iron—Gospel Oak, corrugated, packed in cases (f.o.b. in London), is quoted at £18—a decline of 10s per ton.

At the wool sales to-day 11,100 bales were offered. The market was quiet.

(Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association.) —London, September 19. — Arrived : Mataura, from Auckland ; ftewa, from Timaru; Monarch and Inch Murren, from Lyttelton ; Waimea, from Wellington. The ship Loch Deo, 200 days out from Lyttelton to London", upo been " posted" at Lloyd's.

September 20,

(Received September 21, at 1.15 a.m.)

The testing of the torpedo-boats which have been built for tho New Zealand Government took place at Greenwich to-day. The construction of the boats is very favourably reported upon, and a high rate of speed was obtained in tho trials over the measured mile.

Amsterdam, September 19.

(Received SopturnUir 21, at 1.15 a.m.)

■ At a mooting of the Colonial Congress held in the Exhibition buildings to-day, Frederick Young, secretary of the Colonial Institute in London, in the course of an address strongly urged the federation of tho Mother Country and tho Australian Colonies, and proposed the establishment of a common Parliament^ in which all parts of the Empire would be adequately represented.

Constantinople, September 10,

(Recdvuu September 21, at 1.15 a.m.)

Telegrams to hand from Sofia state that Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has issued a manifesto to tho people declaring his renunciation of tho extraordinary legislative functions with which he vvaa endowed in July 1881 by the vote of the National' Assembly, and announcing the restoration of the National Charter of Liberty, and the appointment of a Ministry pledged to support a liberal form of government.

(Special to Tress Asbooiation.l London, September 20. , (Rccelvod September 21, at 1.15 a.m.) °

Sir Anthony Alusgravc, tho Governor of Queensland, leaves by the steamer Sorata, which sails for Molbourns to-day. The four torpedo boats-ordered by the New Zealand Government have been completed and launched. A trial of them has taken place at Greenwich, with results highly successful, over 17 knots being run. At the luncheon which fallowed the trial, there was a large and fashionable company. Admiral Courbct has been appointed commander of French operations in Tonquin. The Duke of Cambridge has approved of the following military appointments made in tho Victoria Lund Forces: —Major Disney, of the Royal Artillery, as commaudant; Captain Fellows, of First Battalion of East Surrey Regiment, as staff-officer of infantry; and Major Brownrigff, of the Rifle Brigado, a 8 brigade major and head of the school of instruction.