CABLE MESSAGES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES.

[Reoteb's Telegrams.] (Received June 1, 1.8 a.m.) EMPEROR WILLIAM BETTER. j : Berlin, May. 31. • The latest bulletins in regard to the health of the Emperor William .state that he is decidedly better. London, May 30. The Agents-General for the Cape ot Good Hope and the Australian colonies have presented a joint petition to the Hon, Mr Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking for areduotion in wine duties, in spite of the fact that a rupture has occurred in the riegotiation for a commercial treaty with the Spanish Goveanment, , THE GORDON MEMORIAL The project which has been set on foot to establish a hospital at Port Said, as a memorial to the late General Gordon, is abandoned,; The committee who have charge of the subscriptions are now considering' to what userthe funds should be put.

SETTLEMENT OF THE AFGHAN DIFFICULTY. • . .London, May,3L , A reply from the Russian Government to the proposals, of the English Foreign Office was received yesterday. The contents which have been made pub-

lic, state that arrangements have been come to that Maruchak and Zulifkar Pass remain in the possession of Af-

ghanistan, and the work of the Commission, only inoludes the details of delimitation, the main points having already been fixed. ■ , London, May 28. Consols, | higher than yesterday) to-day's price being 100§. New 4 Zealand securities. unaltered; bank. rate,. 20 I per dent, ; ' market.' rate, Total rovenue in npt'es and bullioii Bank of England, £18,400,000;;; an; increase of lialfa million, during the weekj pro-

portion of reserve to, liabilities, 62 per cent. Colonial breadstufls : Adelaide wheat (ex store), 365; Adelaide flour (ex store), 275; New Zealand wheat (ex store), 30s to 365.

■ The' following "specials" to tho Prei Association have beep , published

London, May 28. The New Zealand loan of one million and a-half will be placed in the market to-morrow.

The loan is already quoted at a premium of l'| poi' cenfc. It is expectec that the average will bo about £99.

Captain Brennan, of Victoria, the inventor of the torpedo bearing bis name, has receivod a large amount from the English Government for his patent rights,. '

Another picture by Mi' J. B. Millais R.A., " The Ruling Passion," exhibited at the Royal Academy, has been pur chased for the. Sydney Art Exhibition,

The Beveral Agents-General and Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner for Canada, aie urging upon the Government the exemption of colonial securities iiom Btamp duty. The Colonial Institute is urging upon the Government the necessity of granting moro favourable concession in regard to the importation of colonial wines.