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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1023, 16 August 1883, Page 3

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•Jt" [ektjter’r trekOhams—copyright.] t j;j.; - ’ Monetary and Commercial. ;‘ / ’ , Lonbon, August 14. i r ’iCbnsols remain at New Zeaj.land securities continue at the follow- - ..ing quotations *.—Five 1 * per .cent. 10-40 ■ rb6; Five percent 1889 Loan, £ 104J4; Four and a half per cent 18.79-1904 Loan, ex div. ; Four • p«r ; cent inscribed stock 102. Off coast cargoes—New Zealand wheat to-day is ; quoted at 44s 6d. Adelaide and New J'; Zealand breadstuffs, on the spot, rer noiain as at last prices. Australian taljbw continues dull at 39s 6d for best - beef, and 40s 6d for best mutton. 1 London, Aug. 14. . Consols remain at The market rate of discount has risen and ’ is now The Bank rate it 4 per New Zealand securities are quoted as follows: Five per cent 10-40 ‘■' : LoknV‘-ioj6j£ j Five per cent 1889 Loan, •’106; Four and a half per cent 1879.1904. Loan, 100#; Four per cent inscribed stock, 102. The wheat market quiet ; Adelaide, ex warehouse, rejj'ilDaips at 38s; and New Zealand ditto, j<atV>44B 10.48 s; off coast cargoes—New Zealand wheat, 44s 3d. The tallow market is easier; Australian best beef is .iihcbanged at 39s 6d. The Bankruptcy Bill, if' ;i«<* . London, August 15.

• 1 Inthe House of Commons last night “the Bankruptcy, Bill was under consideration and finally passed. . Shipping Disaster. - A. telegram is to hand from Gibraltar reporting that the steamer Ghazee, bound from London to Australia, ran into and sank the steamer Welwyn near i.Cape rSt Vincent. The Ghazee put into Gibraltar to repair damages. All J the ,, passengers and crew of the Welwyn ..were rescued before the vessel went down. . The Mail The Homeward Suez mail, dated Melbourne, July 20th, was delivered Here yesterday. • t ' The Oomte de Ohambprd. ■ ■ ■••■■■■■ Paris, August 14. 1 Comte de Chambord is reported to ' bei dying, and his medical attendants ibsave.' given up all hopes of recovery. ; The Orlfeanist Princes have been summoned to Frohsdorf, the seat of Comte de^Cbambord. [Received August 16, 2 15 p.m.] . ■.. A Mining Accident. -■ ' ■ London, August 15. r News is to band of a serious disaster in.a mine in Cornwall, owing to the breaking of a chain. The cage fell to the:-bottom ot the shaft, and twelve miners who were on the cage were -killed. . ' Trouble Brewing. ... A report is current that a rupture has occurred in the relations between " Italy and Morocco, and that in conse;Quence thereof the Italian envoy at Taiigiers has lowered the flag at the embassy jn that town.