FOREIGN & COLONIAL, TELEGRAMS. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2987, 21 April 1884, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLON IAL, TELEGRAMS. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

[Pbb Electric Telegraph—Copyhigut.] [Reuter's Aoescy.] IKoceived 11.-10 a.m., April 19th.] London, April IS. It has transpired that a Note has been addressed by M. Ferry, the French Premier and Foreign Minister, to the English Government on the subject of the recidiviste question. M. Ferry reaffirms the opinion of his Government that the question of the transport of criminals is a matter o£ internal policy alone, and m no way concerns any foreign pon-'jr. Sir William V. 'Harcoort, tlvs Home Secretary, addressed hi 3 coustiluants at Derby last evening. In the course of his speech he took occasion to say that he entirely disagreed with the opinion expressed by Lord l^osobery at Dundee, that the Government inimifestel a want of interest m colonial affairs. [Received 3.30 p.m., April l!)th.] Calcutta, April 18. Cholera is now raging severely m this city, and has already committed great i ravages among the native population. Bombay, April 21. ' The police m this city and other towns ' m India have effected the seizure of large ] > quantities of printed proclamations signed s by tho Mahdi, urging the Mussuloien to s join his ranks. ■ Cairo, April 18. > Despatches to hand from General > Gordon at Khartoum, dated 9th instant, announce that a prominent merchant at El Oboid reports to him that the followers [ of El Mahdi have been recently twice ' defeated by a force of local Ai ab3, and p that tho rebels are now surrounded. t ;. Received 7.15 p.m., April 19th.] i London, April 18. f Consols have advanced to 102§. The ' market rate of discount has decliucd to 5 If per cent, and is now f bilow the | Bank rate. New Zealand securities are : to-day quoted as follows :—5 per cent I 10-40 loan, 103|, an advance of % ; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 105 ; 4i per cunt 1879---,j 1904 loan, 101J, a decline of J- ; 4 per f cent inscribed Block, 101£. j Colonial breadstuff's continuu dull at " last quotations. Adelaide flour ex store 1 is at 28s. The quantity of wheat afloat r for the United Kingdom is 1,950,000 i quarters. I The Australian tallow market remains r quiet. Beef of average quality is worth 1 375, and mutton of average quality 40s. ■ [Special to the Press Association.] London, April 17. .. Mr Maurice Lyons is privately ar- ■ t ranging to float a Northern Territory k Pastoral Company of Australia, d The leave of Mr Thomas Arcler, Airentl- General for Queensland, has been cxc tended for three months. Hif successor •a will be appointed m June next. I The gunboat Protector Bails for MclII bourne at the beginning of Ju;ie. fc April 18. a Mr Murray Smith reminds the Times jj that a conflict with France would bo im- „ minent if the colonies prevent convicts j under the Reeidiviste Bill from landing. r He deprecated threats of warfare. 0 Mr Torrens, presiding at a meeting of s the shareholders of the Bank of Adelaide, I, considered that the monetary pressure of :1 the colony would not be removed until c tho value of the wheat crop surplus had ) been circulated. He further Btated that n there was no immediate prospoct of a rise m the price of wheat. c The tenor of M. Ferry's note is en)fc dorsed and confirmed by the French * Press.