Timaru Harbour Loan.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5549, 22 February 1886, Page 4

Timaru Harbour Loan.

The New Hebrides. Relief by Emigration. Commercial. The Royal Admiral. Chairman of Committees. Sir Charles Dilke. [Keuteu's Telegrams.] LONDON, Fed. 10. The Timaru Harbour Board announce a loan of .£IOO,OOO at 5 per cent. Tho minimum has been fixed at 110. Tenders will he opened on March 1. It haa been arranged that the Agents-General of tho Australasian Colonies shall have an interview with Earl Granville, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on Monday next, to discuss the possible occupation by Franco ofjthe New Hebrides-group. An influential deputation waited npon Earl Granville to-day in reference to alleviating tho present distress among the unemployed by means of emigration. Lord Granville, replying to the representations of tho deputation, stated that he was in favour of State-aided emigration for workmen to the British Colonies. He added that he hoped for the creation of an official Emigration Department. Earl Granville, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is bringing pressure to bear on France and Italy, with a Tiew of inducing tbem to reduce the proportion charged by them for the conveyance of overland mails between Calais and Brindisi. "New Zealand Securities :—5 per cent 10-40 loau, 105!; *H P er cent 1879-1904 loan, 102; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 102|. Colonial breadstuft's and tallow aro •unaltered in value. The total quantity .of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,750,000 quarters, being an increase of 130,000 quarters during the week. .New Zealand frozen mutton realises sjd to s|d per lb; a rise of one farthing per lb. The Orient Company's steamer Potosi, from Melbourne, Jan. 18, arrived at Plymouth to-day. Feb. 2?. .His Eoyal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has started for Malta, in order to assume command of the Mediterranean squadron. Mr Leonard Courtney has been appointed Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons. A meeting of tho Chelsea Liboral Committee was held to-night. Sir C. Dilke, who was present, tendered a full explanation, denying his guilt in connection with the recent divorce proceedings. The meeting carried a vote of confidence in Sir Charles Dilke. The combined squadrons, which were despatched to Greece to prevent uaval operations on the part of that Powt>r, have rendezvoused at Neda (sic), the .French fleet alone being absent. [The Kiver Neda, forming the boundary between the Province of Olyinpia on the north, and Triphylia on tho -south, rises* near Mount Tetragi, nnd flows westward into the Gulf oE Arcadia. The Greek fleet was reported the other clay to be lying at Salami.-, c>-i the other side of the country, in the Gulf .of (Egina.j