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BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright

[Sehteh’s Agency.]

[Received April 17,1888, 9.50 p.m.]

Commercial.

London, April 16,

Consols remain at 102|, New Zealand securities are quoted as follows 5 per cent 10-4 D loan, 108£ ; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 106; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 102§ ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 102 j, The market rate of discount has % advanced £ per cent, and is now 2|. The Bank rate is 3 per cent. The markets for colonial breadstuffs and tallow are unchanged. Annexation of New GuineaApril 17.

The London newspapers in their leading articles this morning, .commenting upon the annexation of New Guinea by the Queensland Government, generally express doubt that the Imperial Government will approve of the action of the colonial authorities. The Murder Trials-

In the course of the trial of Daniel Curley, the second Phoenix Park prisoner, at Dublin yesterday, the informer Carey, whilst under examination, testified to the fact that twenty distinct plots bad been formed for the assassinstion of Mr Forster, late Chief Secretary for Ireland,

Coronation of the Czar* St Petersburg, April 16. It is announced that the coronation of the Czar has been postponed for a fortnight, until June 10.

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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3133, 18 April 1883, Page 2

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3133, 18 April 1883, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3133, 18 April 1883, Page 2