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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 838, 10 January 1883, Page 3

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LATEST FROM EUROPE- b [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT.] Monetary and Commercial. / London, Jan. 8. « Consols, New Zealand securi- tl ties : Five per cent, xo-40 Loan, 105 ; * Five per cent. 1889 Loan, 104; Four and a half per cent. 1879-1904 Loan, The markets for colonial ]y breadstuffs and tallow are unchanged. d Mr Gladstone’s Illness. ft London, Jan. 9. d A bulletin issued at Hawarden re- li ports that Mr Gladstone is suffering b from insomnia. His indisposition is * not, however, of a nature to cause . alarm. a Sir Charles Dilke. . q Sir Charles Dilke, whose appoint- f ment to the Presidency of the Board o! t Trade necessitated his re-election, has o been returned for Chelsea without op- C position. f; [Received Jan. 10, Ip.m.] c The Victorian Loan. e The tenders for the Victorian four c million loan at four per cent, were * opened to-day. The total amount t offered was found to be L 455,500, at prices ranging from 100 to 102 Tenders are now invited until Monday j next for the unallotted balance of f L 3,544,500 at the minimum previously 1 fixed, par. \ Obituary. Paris, Jan. 8. ' General Vinoy, of the French army, is dead. The Spanish Ministry. Madrid, Jan. 8. Don Pedro Manuel Sagasta, President of the Council of Ministers, has successfully re-formed the Cabinet. Shipping. New York, Jan 8. Arrived—Ship Mendoza, from Auckland, Sept. 15. AUSTRALIAN. , [hf.dter’s telegrams—COPYßlGHT.] Shipping. I Melbourne, Yesterday. i Sailed, this afternoon —The Union 1 Company’s steamship Rotomahana, for * the Bluff. ? [Received Jan. 10, 1 pm.] : Commercial. 1 Melbourne, To-day. I The Melbourne manager of the e National Mortgage and Agency Comg pany of New Zealand reports the local i- grain market, as follows Shipping e vyheat is firm at 4s 9d to 4s lod ; maltjpg barley, 4s to 4s 3d ; New Zealand .° oats, under bond, 2s 9d to 3s 3d. The * demand for oats has slackened, and „ prices have declined. * The Suez Mail. , e Arrived, this morning, P. and O. s.s. >e Clyde, with Suez mail. 10 Sydney, Yesterday. Arrived, this rooming—The Union

Company’s steamship Wakatipu, from Wellington. The New South Wales Ministry. The re-election of the membeis of the new Ministry h;is taken place, and with the exception of Mr H. Copeland, all were returned without opposition. The Raising of the Austral. 'I he construction of a coffer dam round the steamship Austral for the purpose of raising her is proceeding rapidly. The Bishopric of Sydney. The General Anglican bynod met today, and appointed a committee to confer with regard to the election to the vacant Bishopric of Sydney. Land Laws of New South Wales. Sydney, To-day. The Government has appointed a Commission consisting of Messrs Augustus Morris and George Rankin, to enquire into the condition and working of the 'existing Land Laws of New South Wales.