FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3259, 7 March 1885, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Pee Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ) (Reuter's AaENCY.,) (Received 1 p.m., March Gth.) London, March 5. Count Herbert Biamarck, Acting Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs m Germany, ha 3 arrived at London on ; a mission to bring about a friendly understanding between Germany and England on the Pacific question. - . . The Times of to-day states that Government has decided forthwith to ask Parliament to authorise an increase of the standing army by fifty thousand men. ■ (Special to the Press Association.) (Received 11 p.m., March 6th.) London, March 6. Mr Howard Vincent will read a paper on "Australia" at the Royal Colonial Institute. ; ' \ The shipment of meat from Melbourne 1 by the Orient steamer Austral is realising s^d per pound, The revelation contained m the Blue Book on New Guinea recently issued, showing the original advances made by Bismarck to England with regard to that island, is causing an alienation of French sympathy with Germany. (By Telegraph.) Wellington, March 6. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following telegram from their Home oifice, dated the 3rd inst. : — " The wool niarket is unchanged. The wheat market is dull. The total shipments afloat amount to 2,700,000 quarters. Adelaide is worth 35s 6d, and New Zealand 31s 6d per 4961 b. Tuscan is worth 33s 6d per 49Glb ; Adelaide, f.a.q., is worth c.i.f. off coast, 35s per 4801 b ; ditto, to ; arrive per iron ship (March bill of lading) is also worth 35s per 4801 b. The tallow market is over-stocked ; mutton and beef are worth 33s 6d and. 33s respectively, per cwt. Thq leather market is unchanged. New Zealand hemp, finest qualities, are m good demand, out common qualities are neglected; quotations are unchanged.