CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7169, 9 March 1892, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(dy cable,— press ASSOCIATION,) ' QUEENSLAND TREASURY BILLS Lonjjon, March 8. The Queensland Government has placed a quarter of a million of four : year treasury bills at a minimum of 98. THE MERCANTILE B\NK. The Loudon shareholders of the i Mercantile Bank in Melbourne urge the reconstruction of the company as speedily as possible, OUR AGENT GENERAL. Mr W. B. Percival, Agent General for New Zealand, will read a paper before the Colonial Institute in May, THE EIDER. Lloyds steamer, Eider, which went ashore at the Isle of Wight, has been floated off. Sill \VM. ROBINSON. SirWm. Robinson, Agent General for Western Australia, i 3 suffering from a severe attack of typhoidal malaria, LONDON COUNT? COUNCIL. The amended County Council returns give the progressists 88, and the moderates 80, ' CUSTOM UPTURNS. During thfi mouth the imports increased ,-£l,ijG6,ooo, while the exports dosreased £1,141,000, WOOL SALES. The Antwerp wool sales will open on i the 15th March, and be carried over the following (Jay. The catalogue will in- | elude 0,100 bales, including 1,350 from Australia.

• THE BJIITISH ARMY. During the discussion in the House of Commons on the war estimates, Mr E, Stanhope, Secretary of State lor the War Department, mentioned that the trial of smokeless powder had been at-1 tended with success, and that the whole of the forces were to be armed with modem weapons, The defence, he said, of the coaling stations was practically complotcd, and submarine mines provided throughout the empire, effective defence, which could bo iucroased on short notice. Ho also stated that tho comforts of the now barracks would tend to induce the I enlistment of recruits.