CABLE MESSAGES. British and Foreign Telegrams

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8756, 18 April 1890, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES. British and Foreign Telegrams

By Electric Telegraph. — Pnited Press Association Copyright — Received IS^JDO — 3.30 p.m.

HANK RATE OF DISCOUNT.

London, April 17. The Bank rate of discount is :> per •ent. VIOC TUAV LOAN. Eight hundred temlers wero received for the Victorian four million loan, covering £I;>,G 18,000. Tenderers at £101 Us Gd get fifty per cent. The average price is expected to be £101 11s. A syndicate tendered for several millions at £101 9s Gd. Banks and syndicates tendered largely at the lowest prices, vrith a view of simply swelling the total aniouut offered and the lowering of the Bank rate of discount from 'M, to '•) per cent., which raised the average price by five shillings. With the exception of small outsiders the highest tender was £102 Is. EMIGBATF<NTO WKSTSHN AUSTRALIA. Sir F. W. Broonie informed the Colonising Committee of the House of Commons that it would be useless to attempt any scheme of sending emigrants to Western Australia under £10U,000 (?). Sir F. Campbell stated that the stagnation from which that colony was suffering was entirely the result of the Colonial Office refusing to permit borrowing. L »NDON .nrKKY CLUB Sir W. H. Houldsworth has been elected a steward of the Jockgy Club, Tice Mr J. Lowther resigned. SILVER CURRENCY. As a means of dealing with the silver difficulty, a Joint Committee of tho Lower House and Senate propose that the Treasury shall buy -i^ million minces per month, and advocate almost free coinage. RAID ON A GETTING IP>USE. La-t night the police made a mid on the Fidelia, a li»w betting club in Soho, and eliVctPil the arrest of fifty-seven persons, chiell}' foreigners. COMMAND OF II M.S. EXOELLKN" \ Captain Kane, lati' of H.M.S. Calliope, is an applicant for the pn?t of commander of H.M.S. Excellent.

800 MAKERS* WAGK DISP-.'TE

It ha? been agived between the bootmaker- and their employers to refer the wages dispute to arbitration. MADAME MBLB.Vd SUCCESS IS PARIS P-vnis, April 17.

Madame Mclba appeared here as " Marguerite ' in Faust, and scored the greatest success that has fallen to the lot of any singer who has rilled the part sinco Adelina Patti.

FRKNCH PRE I'JENT'-iT UK

President Carnot touched at Aix-les-Bains, but proceeded to Marseilles without visiting Queen Victoria, who i^ at present in tho former city.

bIOTIHG AMONGST MI ERS. Berlin*, April 17.

Rioting occurred amongst the Silesian miners, but the disturbance was suppressed by the military.

DUTIES IV DM 'ED BTATE9.

Washington, April 17.

A Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives has reported on the Republican Tariff Bill, making hides and sugar below 16 per cent Dutch standard free ; above 16 per cent subject to a duty of four-tenths of one cent per pound ; and giving American domestic sugars a bounty of two cents per pound.

PAN-AilEhlUA'Sr CONGSSSS A FAILURE.

The Pan-American Congress is generally regarded as a failure, and no result is expected from its deliberations.

POBTOGUK*K LOAN A FAILbKB

The proposed Portuguese railway loan was a fiasco.

SOCIALI-T PEMONSTRATTON.

Tke Socialists-declare that the labor demonstration on May Ist will be carried out everywhere without auy disorder.