BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
[B? BIECTQIO TBLSGBAPH-~CO?TBIGHT.j (BSUTSS'S TSLEGBAMB.) LONDON, March 11. Tenders weFB opened to-day for tho loaa of L 1,500,000 at four per cent.,placod upoa the market by the Queensland Governraent. Tho total amount applied for wae four miilicD pounds, Tenders at LlO5 6s 8d receive fifty per cont. of the amount applied for j above that ia f uil. Details to hand in regard to the railway collision near Mentone show that the accident was considerably over-stated. Only two lives were lost, in tbe collision, and neither o£ the victims was English. The weekly returns of the Bank of Eugland show tho total renerve in notes aor? bullion to bo £14,600,000, tbe proportion of reserve to liabilities being 46 per cent. New Zealand securitien are quoted as follows i — 5 per cent. N.Z. loan, LI O3 ex div.; 4£ por cent. 1879-1904 ditto, LlO2 10a ; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, LlO3. Hides are in limited demand at £d lower. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 11. At their preliminary meeting the Ambaesadore approved an amendment in the form of an agreement on the Roumelian Question.
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Southland Times, Issue 9164, 13 March 1886, Page 2
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183BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Southland Times, Issue 9164, 13 March 1886, Page 2
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