FROM THE PRESS ASSOCIATION'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
: : LONDON, Jan. 1L / Money is plentiful, with a slack discount . demand.'';. The bank minimum/is unchanged. The market rate on three months' bills is 4 per cent. The bank reserve is steadily increasinc, and is now over ten and a half millions. The bank has advanced the Government three and a half millions. The stock market is. steady, and consols rising ; they are now 95f. The market for Australian securities is remarkably firm. Corn market unchanged. , . .■;■•■ Jan. 12. General Roberts attacked the Afghan irregulars, and after a severe and protracted con^ test, the Afghans were defeated with the. loss of 500 killed. Numerous prisoners were taken and herds of cattle and quantities of grain. . Marshal Esperilo, a Spanish statesman, is dead.
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Southland Times, Issue 3299, 16 January 1879, Page 2
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