FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2904, 14 January 1884, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABI.E. (Peb Elecwrio Telegraph. — Copyright.) [Reoter's Aoenoy.] [Eeoeivod 1.10 p.m. Jau. 12th.l ; London, Jan. 11. Tenders for the New Zealand loan, of one million sterling, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent, were opened to-day. The total amount offered was f mild to be > five millions. Tenders at £100 5s will 1 receive 54 per cent of ths allotment, and those ahove that price will receive m full. The minimum fixed was £98 10s. The Hod. Sir Ghilders, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has informed the Colonial ' -Agents-General that the concern iou re- ! cently made to Spain m regard to duties : on nine will ba extended to the Colonies. , The communication states that the limit . of thirty degrees of spirit strength must , not be exceeded, but adds that Mr ; Childers will take into consideration the proposal of the Agents-General that a i sliding scale of duties should be adopted. : ':'■". Hong Kong, Jan. 11. , Li Hung Chang, Viceroy of China, has '■ arrived at Canton and officially notified > the foreign consuls that the approaches ' to the Post of Canton aro to be forthwith ' blockaded by torpedoes, but that a channel 1 ninety feet wide will be left f>r the passage of vessels along the river. [Special to the Press Association.] ■ *" • London, Jan. 10. The Commercial Bank of Adelaide! opens m London on Jan. 14th. The London Directors are Messrs John Beck,. A. . Turton, Barr, »nd H. Smith. The Agents-General have been api pointed Vice-Presidents of the Hygienic Exhibition. A difficulty m procuring the iialmon ova has delayed the intended shipment to New Zealand. ■ The leakage of the s.s. Dnke of Westminster is increasing, and she is now ex--1 posed to a heavy sea.