ENGLAND.
(KSUTKRS TILIOBAMS.) Londok, Nov 17.
Consols, lOOg. Banking rate of discount remains at 0% } market rate is 3g.
Total reserve in notes and bullion in th« Bank of England is £10,500,000.
An extensive robbery was to-day committed at Hatton Garden Post Office. The gas in the office was suddenly turned off, and before it could be relighted, a registered bag containing diamonds*and other valuables worth £80,000 was stolen. The robber has not yet been discovered.
The Australian and JNew Zealand mails, via San Francisco, which left Auckland on the 11th October, were delivered here today.
No confirmation has yet been received of the statement contained in the Standard telegram of the 16th instant, that Mopoch, one of the leading chiefs in the Lydenburg district of Transvaal, has declared war against the Boers. Intelligence is, however, to hand from Durban (Natal) that the telegraph line between that place and Pretoria is broken, and no news regarding the reported outbreak of natives could therefore be obtained.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XV, Issue 4524, 21 November 1881, Page 2
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165ENGLAND. Wanganui Herald, Volume XV, Issue 4524, 21 November 1881, Page 2
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