ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3385, 3 August 1885, Page 3

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABLE.

(PbkEiiKCtricTbleoeaph. — Copyright. ) (Rbutjbb's Agency.) [Received 1.45 p.m., August lst.j Rio i>e Janeibo, July 30. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Aorangi, from Lytteltou (left July Sth), arrived hare yesterday morning with her meat cargo m good condition. London, July 30. The, weekly Bank returns show the proportion of reserve to liabilities at 45 per cent the same as last week. The total reserve m notes and bullion has fallen £6,000,000, and is now at £7,200,000. Throe per cent consols aro § higher, 07|. The Bank rate is 2 per cent, and market rate 1 per cent. July 31. It is announced that Government have resolved to proceed with the construction of an entrenched camp m Pisheen Valley m Afghanistan. Speaking m the House of Commons today Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, announced that some railway material was being accumulated at Quettah, m case it should become necessary to extend the line m the direction of Carjdahar. The Medical Relief Bill has been passed by the House of Lords. The Standard to-day contains an article violently attacking Lord Randolph Churchill, whose ignorance and incapacity the writer declares, are ruining the Conservatives. (SpICIAI. TO THE PBBBH ASSOCIATION.) (Received 10.40 a.m., August Ist.) London, July 30. The froze* meat market is glutted. . Captain Beymour Hughes, Aide-dc-Camp to Sir H. Loch, Governor of Victoria, who hajs been seriously ill. is now improving. The Government advise the retention of the Abrogation proviso m tho Federation Bill m order to avoid dolay m its passage. (.B«oeiv«d 12.43 p.m., Angnst Int. j July 31. The Wellington and Manawatu railway loan of £160,000, being the remainder of the original amount of £6G0,000 has been placed on the market. The minimum has been 6xed at £08, and tenders will will be opened on the 7th inst.