CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11356, 21 December 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AJSD FOREIGN. (By Eleotrio^Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per Press Association,) London, December 19.^£ gjThere is a general decline ia the English wheafi market.. .-.The Continental market ia steady;* and', American ohanging a little for the worse. The money tnarket'is ohariging^fdr 'tKo* better, owing to the importation of large, quantities of gold. Three months bill* are ' quoted in the open, market at an average of 4J per cent;' ••--•••• ■ --•••" Sir T. Esmond and Mr.Dease, Irish MiP.'a, have sailed for Australia on their lecturing tour; Sir J. Fergusson stated in the House of Commons that the Government believe Osman Digna'a letter to be a ruse, beoanse it was . impossible to, travel , from Lftdo to Khartoum in the" space' of time in whioh it ia asserted,' the' news of the capture reaohed the' Matidi. It was an ignoble proposal to make,' that' the' English' troops should retire before the insolent vapour-., ings of the beseigers of Suakim. „ ; « ,'.•:)■ St. Pbtbrsbubg, Deoember 18. ' The statement that Russia has sent' 8 threatening note to the Persian 1 Governwent ib denied, -' It is further stated that Russia has resolved to avoid all complications in ; the East.' ;