FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3872, 2 March 1887, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONI AL TELEGRAMS.

BKGZ.ISH AITD FOREIGN CABLE. (Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Redteb's Agency.) (Boooived 12.30 p.m., March Ist.) OBITUARY. Rome, Feb. 28. Cardinal Jacobini died to-day at noon. (Eeoeived 5.30 p.m., March Ist.) THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE. London, Feb. 28. In the House of Commons this afternoon, the First Lord of the Treasury announced that Queen Victoria would attend a jubilee service m Westminster

Abbey on the 21st June, which day would be proclaimed a general holiday. ARCHBISHOP CROKE'S LETTER. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, replying to a question, Btated that the letter of Archbishop Croke, urging the Irish people to pay no taxes, was engaging the attention of the Government. ILLJUDGED INTERFERENCE. Beui.in-, Feb. 28. A number of private choral societies m Alsace have been dissolved by the authorities on suspicion that they have French connections. (Received 10.15 p.m., March Ist.) MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Consols, 100£. The market rate of discount is 3£ per cent, or If per cent below the minimum bank rate. New Zealand Government securities are unchanged at previous quotations. Adelaide wheat is Is lower, viz., 36s 6d ; Adelaide flour, 6d lower, 26s ; New Zealand wheat, lowest, 33s 6d ; best qualities, 376 6d. Australian beef tallow, 25s 6d ; mutton tallow, 30s. (Received 10.15 p.m., March 1.) DECLINED. London, March 1. Admiral Tryon who was offered the position of head of the new Intelligence Department of the Navy has declined the appointment. POLITICAL DEADLOCK. Rome. Feb. 28. A deadlock has occurred m the Italian Parliament several prominent statesmen baring declined to undertake the formation of a new Cabinet. THE TURKISH COMMISSIONER. Constantinople, Feb. 28. Riuz Paslia, Turkish special conimißsioner to Bulgaria, started to-day for Sofia. (Special to the Press Association.) (Received 4.35 p.m., March Ist.) PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURE. London, Feb 28. Upwards of twenty applications have been received for the position of Professor of Agriculture m the Department of Agriculture of South Australia. Several of the applications are from excellent men. The selection will not be made until the arrival of Mr Downer on the -ttb inst.