Late Telegrams.

Otago Witness, Issue 1575, 21 January 1882, Page 14

Late Telegrams.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, January lGth. -Consols remain at 100f. ■ New Zealand securities are without quotable > 1 > ' Colonial breadstuffs are declining. Adelaide wheat (ex warehouse) has fallen to 55s ; New Zealand wheat (ex "warehouse) to 525 ; and Adelaide flour (ex warehouse) to 41s. Australian tallow— best beef, 435; best mutton, 47s 6d. •„ Further intelligence -to hand regarding the recent disaster on board H.M.S. Triumph, at Coquimbo, states that it was caused by an explosion of cenotinc sickative, or dry phosphate of yetteria. ' Musurus Pasha, Turkish Ambassador, to-day formally presented to Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary, a circular note to the Great Powers, in which the Sultan sets forth that his rights m Egypt are founded on an Imperial firman, and that foreign nations are in no way entitled to interfere in the affairs of the Regency. Ihe ■ note, as already reported, further demands an j explanation of the Anglo-French note guaran- ] teeing tho maintenance of the Khedive s j authority against any disorder that may at any time arise in Egypt. Paris, January 16th. A proposal emanating from the Government was to-day submitted to the Chambers providing for the prolongation for the further period of one month of the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty, which otherwise expires on the Bth prox. No decision has yet been arrived at by the Chambers in regard to the proposal. i Vienna, January 17th. The agitation which for some time past has been manifest in Southern Dalmatia is daily assuming a more serious aspect, and the inhabitants are rising to arms against the Austrians at several points. The agitation has now extended into Herzegovina, and on account of the attitude of the inhabitants large bodies; of troops have been despatched by the Austrian Government to reinforce the troops recently despatched to Dalmatia. _ » ' '■