TELEGRAPHIC.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4983, 16 April 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND PORBIGN.

(Per Electric Telegram —(joi , vriu.ht.) (Per Ppess Association.) (Received 12.50 a.m., April lsth.) THE TEKAPO. Sydney. April 15, The Tekapo sailed for Wellington at half-past six o’clock this evening with Lord Onslow’s family on board. COMMERCIAL. Only New Zealand wheat is in the market at present, and there is a temporary overplus, but prices are maintained.

Melbourne, April 15. Active speculation is going on in wheat. Present quotations are 5s 9d. Oats aro in much request, Hoayy New

i Zealand, 4s to 4s id ; Tartarian, 4s 3d to | 4s 4d. ! ARREST OP A MEDICAL MAN. Doctor Lizz, a medical man at Williamstown, has been arrested on a charge o£ performing an illegal operation. The patient is reported to be dying. STRIKE OF IRONWORKERS. Owing to the strike the Phoenix Foundry at Ballarat has been closed, and 600 hands are thrown out of employment. THE PARAMATTA. Albany, April 15. Arrived—P. & 0. Company’s Paramatta. Passengers for New Zealand, Messrs Falconer and Howard. (Special to Press Association.) (Received noon, April 15th.) THE TASMANIAN LOAN. London, April 14. Protests against the proposed Tasmanian £1,000,009 inscribed per cent loan are being made on the ground that previous loans have been misappropriated. It is thought that the threat made by the Tasmanian Railway Company in February last, that they would oppose the new loan, and debar quotations being obtained for it, unless they succeeded in making a satisfactory working agreement with the Tasmanian Government, has imperilled the prospects of the loan. Financiers do not approve of so high a minimum as 97 being fixed for the loan. Mr O. E. N. Braddon, the Agent-General for Tasmania, in letters to The Times says that he is prepared to prove that the ground of the protests, that former loans have been misappropriated, is quite without foundation. * THE COPPER TROUBLE. Messrs Mason and Barry (limited), the pyrites merchants, of Cannon streat, London, have commenced proceedings against the Sociele des Meteaux. Competent authorities declare that it is impossible to frame resolutions restricting the production of copper. THE SUGAR CONVENTION BILL, In the course of his speech in the House of Commons, when introducing the Sugar Convention,Bill, Baron de Worms made a statement to the effect that the Cuban sugar crop would be small this season, and cause the advance of all sugars, and that German beet sugar had further advanced to 39s 3d. INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL MATCH. The international football match, England versus Scotland, played at the , Kennington Oval yesterday, was won by Scotland. A DERELICT. SIX HUNDRED EMIGRANTS i MISSING. The ship Atalanta has been found ; abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Six hundred Danish emigrants who were on , board are missing.