FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. ENGLISH & FOREIGN CABLE

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 8939, 23 February 1884, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. ENGLISH & FOREIGN CABLE

(Pee EleotricTelegraph.— Cofyrmht.) [Rbutbe's AoßNcnr.] ' fßeoeived 10 p.m.', Pob f 22nd.l " ': _ „' . London* Feb.,2o. Consols remain, at 101& and New Zealand securities as follows:— s per cent 10-40 loan, 105 ; 5 per ce B t 1889 loan, 103| ; ih per cent 1879-1904 loan, 100, ex dividend ; 4 per cent inscribed r.tock. 100. ~ ■-- ' Adelaide wheat, ex store, 44a ; New Zealand do, 36s to 42s ;■ Adelaide flour, ex warehouse), 31s. ' _ A'ostralJan- tallow, average quality, beef 38s, mutton 41s 6d. The catalogue at to-day's Wool .Bale comprised 12,300 bales. A- fair competition was experienced at firm current rates. Foreign buyers are operating more (Spjscui. xo thb Press Association.) 1 '••'■'■ ;■:- Londok, Feb. 19. After further consideration, th<» Admiralty have pblitely declined the offer of; the colonial gunboata, on the ground that the British forco now stationed m Efiypt is sufficient. In Government circles remark is made on the faot | of the Agents-Generol not ■ being authorised to conduct parleying with respect to the decision of the zecent Sydney Convention on Annexation and Federation. The liat of arrivals for the wool -sales has closed with 357,000 bales, this number including the shipments per stauaers [beria, Etna, Shannon^ Gulf of Yitnice British Kiuff and another. Portj-nine -housand bales have been forwarded to breign ports. ■ . .:■,■■• ,r Feb. 30. Mr H. Campbell-Bannerman, M.P., rirst Secretary of the Admiralty, m eply to Mr ' Mprray-SmitVei bffiir on lehatf of the Victorian Government, nas «ted"tbat^if there is-wiy prospeoK i>f a aval war,th© Admirajt/, -will willbgly ccept the services of the Colonial ininoata. " " Gordon Pasha's ppooiamatiori sifeog l>at tho slave trad.c will be permitteain lie Sbndan' " r ia Confirmed. 'Th<^ Press iroughout Europe expresses the gn»teefc idignation : at this announcement. L . The fandard insists that the English Cabinet iuat at oncß disown Gordon's notion m ie matter. The division on' Sir Stafford Northpoto's lotion relating to the misconduct tit the inglißh Govbrrimeht with resplilit to gyptian affairs, was (fnoludlng •' the arnellite vote)— For the motion, 262: tuinst it, 311.