ENGLISH CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3331, 1 June 1885, Page 3

ENGLISH CABLE.

(Pee Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) (Reuter's Agency.) [Received 0.30 a.m., Juno Ist.] London, May 30. Consols have fallen Jto 100£. New Zealand securities remain at yesterday's quotations! The market rate of discouut ia # per cent, being 1J per cent below the Bank rate. Colonial breadatuffs— Adelaide wheat, ex store, 355; Adelaide flour, ex Btore, 26s ; Adelaide wheat, off coait, 34s 3d ; New Zealand wheat, 28s to 345. Tallow, hides and leather are at previous prices. 1 Received 1.10 a.m., Juno Ist.] The Agents-General for the Cape of Good Hope and the Australian colonies, have presented a joint petition to Mr Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking for a reduction m the wine duties, ,ln vpite of tfa» fact that a rupture has

occurred m the negotiations for a commercial treaty with tho Spanish Government. The project which was set on foot to i establish a hospital at Port Said, as a memorial to the late General Gordon, has been abandoned. The Committee which have charge of the subscriptions are now considering to what use the funds shall be put. Berlin, May 31. The latest bulletin m regard to the health of the Emperor William, states that he is decidedly better. (Special to the Press Association.) [Received 5.40 p.m., May 31st.J London, May 30. The wheat market is inactive, and quotations are unchanged. The weather i 3 now much warmer, and the harveßt has been delayed a fortnight.