CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1046, 12 September 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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Monetary and Commercial.. London, Sept. 10. Consols have a dvanced : tot , ipqjS* New Zealand securities remain at . last quotations. The market rate of count has fallen to 3 per cent, and the Bank rate to 4 per cent. The wheat market continues dull; Adelaide wheat, ex store, 475, New Zealand dp,. haa fallen 6d, and is now. quoted at 42s 6d to 465. Adelaide flour, ex store, remains at 335, The tallow market is unchanged. Australian best beef, 40s ; best mutton, 41s. The Wool Sales, The catalogue of to-day’s wool sale comprised 12,500 bales. A fair demand was experienced. Shipping. The P. and O. Co.’s steamer Siam, from Melbourne (July 17th) arrived at Plymouth to-day. [Received Sept. 12, 1.25 p.m. The East India Squadron. Aden, Sept. ‘ll.

The East India squadron under command of Admiral Sir Wm. Hewitt, who is on board H.M.S. Euryalus, the flagship, has arrived at Zanzibar. British Consul in Egypt. *. Alexandria, Sept. 11. Major Evelyn Baring has arrived here to assume the position of British Resident Consul-General in Egypt. French Reinforcements.

Pams, Sept. 11. The transport conveying reinforce*. ‘ j ments for the French forces has sailed" < for Tonquin. The Irish Outrage in Glasgow. * London, Sept. 11. Seven Irishmen who were recently arrested at Glasgow charged with cpna-. plicity in blowing up the gasometer in tuJ that city in January last, have been committed for trial. Chinese Row. Hono Kong, Sept. 11. News has been received froih.Cnnton -- that the 1 Chinese mob, who were in-; | censed by the accidental drowning of —. a Chinese lout, who attempted to board the steamship Hankow, set' fire to and destroyed several. houses on the wharf. ; All foreigners have been compelled tp take refuge aboard the shipping,, v The. Chinese troops were called otit tb' restore order. Three gunboats have Ifr. this port for Canton, to protect tbs Europeans. ,

AUSTRALIAN

[beutbr’s TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] The Market?. ‘ ■ • ' ' Melbourne, Yesterday. c The Melbourne manager of the Nj tional Mortgage and Agency Co., Ne Zealand, Limited, reports of the loc; grain . market as follows;—Wheat Shipping parcels in fair demand, 4s 11 to gs ; fowls’ wheat is slow of sale s 3s 4d to 453 d; milling barley, gs t 6i zd. The market is steady. j moderate inquiry has been experience' for New Zealand oats at 2s 11 d to 3s 2 for feeding sorts, and 3s 2d to 3s 3d fo milling dp.; New Zealand oats, unde bond* are quoted at 2s 2d to as 4d, am the market is quiet. « ; Shipping. ■' ‘ ■ mtdnbt, Yestarday. Arrived —This morning, the Uniot steamship Wairarapa, from Auckland. The Suez Mail. ( % Albany, Yesterday. Arrived yesterday evening—The P. atad O. Company’s steamship Clyde, with the inward Suez mails, dated London, August 10th. Smallpox. Brisbane, Yesterday. Two more cases of smallpox occurred at. the quarantine station among the passengers by the immigrant steamship Duke of Westminster, which recently arrived 1 here from London. ; [Received Sept 12, 1.25 p.m.] Shipping. 1 1;., . Melbourne, To-day. 'Sifted,-; yesterday afternoon —Waihwa, &5., for the Bluff. Fatal Fire. A fire took place’last night at the Mr Nash, in Walsh street, South ’ Yarfa. Three children were burnt to death, arid; a fourth is dying.