CABLEGRAMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 2712, 23 January 1892, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.—Copyright) (BY SUBMARINE CABLE.) LONDON, January 21 I The Bank rate of discount is 3 per cent. I Fifteen hundred of the London police Ire down with influenza, j The Marquis of Salisbury was absent pom the Duke of Clarence’s funeral, ■wing to a severe cold. I Influenza is raging in Paris, and three Hundred deaths are recorded weekly, kd in Vienna the mortality is even treater, reaching five hundred per week. K Upwards of 30,000 people daily viewed ■re remains of the late Cardinal Manning phile lying in state. The members of ■re Dockers’ Union, the temperance preieties, and other unions, attend his kneral. I It is announced that Princess Stephanie, pidow of the Archduke Rudolph of Lustria, is betrothed to Duke Charles of Iragarrza. January 22 ■ There were 10,000 people present at the fcquiem service over the remains of lardinal Manning which took place p>-day at the Oratory. Amongst the lore notable people present were the ■uke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Ripon, Baroness Burdett Coutts, Mr Justin ■‘Cartby, Mr W O'Brien, Mr Dillon, Bad Archbishops Walsh and Croke. The Bueen and Princess of Wales were ■presented. The Bishop of Clifton knducted the servico and tho Bishop ■ Newport preached the funeral sermon, ■he procession which escorted the remains ■> Kensall Green numbered 300 carriages, ■Jotaining the bishops and the clergy, B>e members of the Irish Parliamentary Bsrty, and representatives of the labor Hions. ■ The Tasmanian Government will very Hortly offer some Treasury bills in the ■ondon market. The amount is believed ■> be £500,000. The interest will be 4 ■er cent, with a minimum of 99. I The Pall Mall Gazette says that Carnnal Moran will possibly succeed CarBinal Manning. ■ It is believed that Lord Knutsford will Hbbinit the name of the Governor■esignate of New Zealand to Lord ■nslow, who will sound the Government H the colony on the subject. ■ The London Chamber of Commerce Helmed to accept Mr Goschen’s Bchume Hr the formation of a gold reserve until He fullest inquiry has been made into ic. Hpne of tho Walsall Anarchists has conand implicated others. Arawa, which has arrived at PlyjSputh, reports that two of the crew died

from yellow fever. The passengers and mails will be fumigated. The total amount of the reserve in the Bank of England is £14,788,000. The proportion of the reserve to liabilities is 39*76. Consols are at 95^. Three months’ bills are at percent. New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock, 103 ; 3£ ditto, 93£. New Zealand long-berried wheat 445, market flat. Wellington mutton is quoted at 3£d ; beef, hind-quarters 4£d, fore-quarters 3§d. Adelaide wheat is at 44s 6d, market quiet ; Victorian ditto 445, business restricted. German beet sugar, 14s 9d (flat) ; Java ditto, 16s 3d (nominal). No. 1 best Scotch pig iron f.o.b. in the Clyde, 47s (flat). Factory butter, £6 ; prime dairy, £5 6s, market full. Complaints are general about bad packing and irregular weighing. PARIS, January 21

M. Rochefert has instructed M. Laur not to challenge M. Constans to fight a duel over the scene in the Chamber of Deputies. January 22 Notwithstanding the advice of his friends M. Laur persisted in sending a challenge to M. Constans, but the latter declined it. WASHINGTON, January 21 The Coinage Committee of the House of Representatives, by eight to five, have decided to report favorably on the Free Silver Coinage Bill. The Committee defeated a proposal for an International Monetary Conference. TIFLIS January 21 Two trains laden with petroleum came into collision at Tiflis, and in the fire which ensued six persons were burned to death.