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Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3259, 7 March 1885, Page 3

THE LATEST.

(Received at 3.5 a.m.) ENGLISH CABLE. (Per Electric Teieoraph— Copyright.) (Reuter's Agenctx.) [Received 1.30 a.m., March 7th.J London, March 5. Consols remain at 97|. The Bank rate of discount continues at 4 per cent arid the market rate at 3jJ per cent. The total reserve m notes and bullion m the Bank of England remained at £16,500,000 during the week, and its proportion to liabilities continues at 47 per cent. New Zealand securities are at the following quotations : — 5 per cent 10-4 C loan, 102, ex diy. ; 4i per cent 1879-1904 loan, 101, ex div. ; 4 per ceut inscribed stodk, 99. Colonial breadstuffe remain at las! quotations, viz. :— Adelaide wheat, ea store, 3(3s ; New Zealand do, 28s to 34s Adelaide flour, 253. Tallow— Australian, averag* quality beef 335, mutton 345. The Bank of Australasia declared i dividend for the past half year at th rate of 14 per cent per annum, am carried forward and placed to reaerv £26,000. , After an interview to-day between Eai Granville and Destal, the Russian Ambas eador, Mr Gladstone" made a statemen m the House of Commons to the effec that questions of the greatest delicac were now pending with Russia, and de predated any inquiries on the subject. , The Marquis of Hartington, m th House of Commons to-day, confirmed th statements which have been current tha it was proposed to increase the standin army, and added that the number o additional men |i unsettled.