ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3296, 21 April 1885, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(Per Electbio Telegraph. — Copyright.

[Rbuteb's Agency.]

[Received 11 a.m., April 20th. J

London, April 18. Consols have further advanced by an eighth, and are now at 97 £. New Zealand securities remain at last quotations.

No changes are reported m colonial produce. The March-April aeries of the wool ealeß closed to-day. The total quantity sold has been 180,000 bales. 42,000 bales have been held over for the next auofcions. Prices generally closed a halfpenny to a penny lower, except for crossbreds, which have advanced by a halfpenny to a penny, compared with the closing rates of the January-February auctions. The third series of sales open on June 4th.

(Special to the Pbess Association.

[Received 9.45 a.m, April 20th;]

London, April 19.

The new steamer Barrampeete, built forMeßsra Hubbart and Parker, of Victoria, has made a trial trip, when a speed of 13 knots was attained.

Admiral Tryon has been directed to visit the several. Australasian colonies to confer with the authorities on the subject of their defence.

The degree D.D. has been conferred on tho Rev. John Kinross, 8.A., Principal of St. Andrew's College, Sydney, and Professor Salraond, of the Otago University. _ The Spectator, m an article onl federation, considers that the right of secession held by_ a colony would over-ride any past decisions of the Federal Council, and would be fatal to federation.

The French ultimo m reference to the suppression of the Bosphore Egyptitn, has been presented to the Egyptian Government. It is reported that the latter have refused to accede to the re-licensing of the paper as demanded.