Very Latest.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6240, 12 June 1890, Page 3

Very Latest.

IOWI EDITION.

THIS DAY. (Pur Ei.ectrio TBtJEcr.ivu— Gopyrigbt ) (Per Press Associati-w.) (Received 11.£0 p.m., June 12th.) COMMERCIAL. Tho total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2.857.000 quarters, and for the Continent 752.000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 21,792,000 bushels. New Zealand Loan and Merchantile Agency Company’s four per cents £96. Copper, £4B per ton ; tin, £97 10s ; Silver, £4B ss. (Received noon Juno 12th.) THE DIVISION OF AFRICA. London, June 11. St James Gazette publishes a forecast of the basis (011 which it has reason to believe the dispute between England and Germany will be settled. The British claims in Uganda and to the “ Stevenson Road ” connecting Lakes Nyaasa to Tanganyika will be recognised, and in return Germany will be allowed to extend her boundaries inland to the confines of the Congo Free State, giving Britain a free trade route to Lakes Victoria Nyanzaand Tanganyika. The treaties arranged by Dr Peters with the King of Uganda will bo disavowed, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. With a view to overcome obstruction to the Tithes, Irish Land Purchase, and Local Government Bills, the Government will propose that the House shall take them up next session at the stage they have reached by the end of the present session.

SILVER COINAGE,

Washington, June 11.

The Senate is likely to pass it own Silver Bill in preference to that agreed to in the Lower House.

EGPPTIAN FINANCE,

Paris, June 11.

M Ribot states that the French Government will consent to the Egjptian Conversion Scheme if the Powers are allowed to decide on the best means of applying the savings effected.