FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3967, 25 June 1887, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN CABI.E. (Pkk Electric Telegraph— Oopvriuht ) (Renter's Agency.) Reoeived 11.50 a.m., Juno 24th.) EXTENSION OF TIME. Constantinople, June 22. Ihe time for the ratification of the Anglo-Turkish and Egyptian Convention has been extended to the end of the Mohammedan Festival of Baram, commencing to-morrow. (Roooivod 10.15 p.m., Juno 21th.) MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. London, June 23. Consols are \ lower — 10H. The market rate of discount is 1 \ per cent, or -J below bank rate. New Zealand inscribed stock is 98i. The weekly returns of the Bank of

England show the total reserve in notes ' and bullion to be £15,200,000, and the proportion of reserve to liabilities 48 per cent. At to-day's colonial wool Baleß 12,000 bales were offered. The market was firm. The total withdrawals amount to 10,000 bales. (Reooivod 10.15 p.m., Juno 24th.) THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. The organising committee of the Imperial Institute have appointed Mr Thomas E. Oalcutt, architect of the building, but the design he has already submitted will be considerably modified. Other designs also will be exhibited at an early date. It is estimated that the amount collected for the Institute already reaches £300,900. FORGING SIGNATURES. At the afternoon sitting of the House of Commons, a man named Bidmead, who was placed at the bar, was severely rebuked by the Speaker for having been guilty of wholesale forgery of signatures to petitions presented to Parliament. CONGRATULATIONS. Cairo, Juno 22. The Consular Agents of all the Great Powers except France visited Sir Evelyn Baring, the British Agent and Consul General to offer their congratulations on the occasion of Her Majesty's Jubilee. (Special to the Press Association.) (Received 12.15 p.m., Juno 24th.) FRENCH AND RUSSIAN THREATS. London, Juno 23. In connection with the diplomatic notes from France and Russia to the Turkish Government, Russia hints that she will advance to Eizeroum or in the direction of the Euphrates Valley, and France declares she will reserve the right of free action in Syria and elsewhere. UNIVERSITY HONOUR. The University of Dublin has conferred the Doctorship of Laws on Sir Patrick Jennings. QUEENSLAND OPAL MINES. A company to work the opal mines of Queensland with a capital of £100,000 is announced. Half the capital is to be raised immediately. (Eoceivod 1.35 p.m. Juno 21th.) A PROTECTIONIST MOTION. Mr J. L. Jennings, member for Stockport, has given notice in the House of Commons to the effect that, owing to the injuries inflicted on the industries of the United Kingdom by the competition of foreigners, tbe time haß arrived when it is imperative that a scheme of fiscal reform should be carried out. lßeoeived 9.15 p.m., Juno 23rd.l HONOUR DECLINED. It is reported that Mr J. F. Burn, of New South Wales, has been offered the Companionship of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, but has declined. ADELAIDE EXHIBITION. The Duke of Cambridge has telegraphed to Sir H. Sanford, secretary of the British Commission of the Adelaide Exhibition, expressing gratification at the success of the exhibition. SYDNEY LOYALTY. Her Majesty the Queen expressed great pleasure on hearing of the enormously attended meeting in Sydney in celebration of her Jubilee.