ENGLISH CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 2235, 19 November 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH CABLE.

; [Rsutsr's Agency.] , London, Nov. 16. , Consols remain at 100$. 5 per cent New Zealand 1889 loan has [ advanced to 104 ; 5 per cent 10-40 loan I remain* at 104£ ; and 4£ per cent 1879- --' ]9041oanisatl00£. ) Adelaide wheat hai advanced one 1 shilling per quarter, and is quoted to-day k at 575, ex store. New Zealand wheat, ex ' store, remains at 52s 6d. Adelaide flour ' ia quoted at 425, ex store, being an ' advance of one shilling. ' Australian tallow, best beef, 395 ; best I mutton, 41a 6d. j The Standard to-day publishes a telel gram from Natal stating that Mopooh, one of the leading chiefs m the Lydeni burg district of the Transyaal Republic, I has declared war againat the Boers, and , that hostilities may shortly be expected. ' ALEXANDRA, NOV. 16. , News is to hand from Arabia that . cholera has now broken out at Jidda, an ' important seaport on the Red Sea, sixty ' miles west of Mecca, where the epidemic ' has been raging for some time past. A number of deaths have already occurred ' at Jidda, and the mortality *>t Mecca is ' stated to be daily increasing. Berlin, Nov. 37. 3 The Houses of the Imperial Parliament, t the Bundescrath and Reiclißtag, were ! opened to-day. The Speech from the i Throne was read by Prince Bismarck m II the absence of the Emperor. His a Majesty's address stated that the peace of a the Empire wa3 surer now than it had i, been at any time during the last decade. It announced that the present economical '• 6scal policy of the country would bo 0 firmly adhered to, and concluded by J stating that a scheme of insurance for workmen would bo instituted with a view r to improTe the latter's welfare and r counteract the growth of Socialism m the j. Empire.