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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2827, 15 October 1883, Page 2

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(Received at 2.30 a.m.) ENGLISH CABLE. [Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] (Reuter's Agency.) I Received 0.45 a.m. Oct. 15th.l Madrid, Oct. 13. Sonor Herrea has successfully completed the formation of a new Cabinet m succession to the Sagaata Ministry. Capetown, Oct. 13. Intelligence is to hand from Zululand to the effect that Mr Osborne, Governor and resident Commissioner, has sent a troop of cavalry to escort Cetewayo to the British Residency. The King, however, declined, and refused to quit tho bush. London, Oct. 13. A Parliamentary Blue Book, issued^ today, on the Pacific Annexation question, contains a despatch from Lord Normanby to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated June last, strongly urging immediate annexation, and the establishment of a protectorate over the New Hebrides group and the neighboring islands as far New Britain. Consols have further advanced to 101 £. New Zealand securities are quoted to-day as follows : — 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 103 i ; 5 per cent 1889 lean, 107 ; 4i per cent 1870-1904 loan, 101] ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 101*. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,840,000 quarters, an inureaso of 110,000 quarters during the week. The markets for Australian grain and tallow are without quotable change. Copra, Sydney sun-dried, is at L2O 103 per ton. Leather — Best sides have advanced to ll|d per lb. The American wheat crop is estimated at 400,000,000 bushels. The European beetroot crop ia expected to amount to 1,970,000 tons.