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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 846, 19 January 1883, Page 3

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[rioter’s TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] [Received Jan. 19, 2.30 p.m.] Monetary and Commercial. London, Jan. 17. Consols have advanced to New Zealand securities are without quotable change. Colonial breadstuffs and tallow are steady at last quotations. Union Bank. - The Union Bank of Australia def dared a dividend of eight per cent, for -the-past Kalf j-eai, and carried JL.30,000 ~£t6 the reserve fund. S The Mails. ' The homeward mails via Naples, per the Orient steamship Garonne from Melbourne (Nov. 30), were delivered here to-day. Shipping. s [Eer Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association.] Arrived—r Ship Pampero, from Lyttel- ■ ton (Sept. 26). [Received Jan. 19, 2.50 p.«.] New Bishops. ; London, Jan. 18. * Canon Wilkinson has accepted the "nee of Truro, rendered vacant by the .appointment of Dr Benson to the primacy. Archdeacon Lewis has been Appointed Bishop of LlandafT, in room ‘of the late Dr Ollivant. The Premier’s Health, t f Intelligence has been received that the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has reached Cannes. He has accomplished the journey without undue fatigue, and bis health is in a more satisfactory state. Coronation of the Czar. St. Petersburg, Jan. 18 The Emperor Alexander, in his customary New Year’s speech, points to speedy coronation. More Trouble for Egypt. Alexandria, Jan. 17. ’ Intelligence is to hand from the Soudan that an engagement has been fought between a battalion of the Egyptian troops and rebels under El Mahdi, a false prophet. The latter 'were victorious and inflicted a severe defeat on the troops, a whole battalion of the latter being virtually destroyed, fully one half being killed, and the rest placed hots de combat.