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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1242, 1 May 1884, Page 2

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[tc butch's TRLEORAUS OOFVKIOUT.} Monetary and GommerciaL London, April OS. Consols have further declined H, and are now quoted at New Zealand securities remain at the follow* ing quotations; Five per cent 10-40 Loan, 103%; Five per cent. 1889 Loan, 105; Four and a half per cent 1879-1904 Loan, 101% ; Four per cent. Inscribed Stock, toitf. The wheat market continues dull—Adelaide ex store, 435; New Zealand ditto, 33s to 40s. Adelaide flour, ex store, 38s. Australian tallow—average quality beef, 36s 6d; mutton, 395. Australian merino wools are ruling from the dosing rates of last sales to lower. The Australian Cricketers. London, Apnl 30. The P. and O. steamship Sutlqj, with the remainder of the Australian cricketers; arrived at Plymouth bn Monday night. The CholeraThe cholera patients on board H.M. . transport Crocodile are ail recovering, and the troops which the vessel brought Home have been landed. '|t is * expected that no further cases trill qqij occur.

Obituary. deaths are announced of Sir Michael Costa, eminent composer, j aged 74, and Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M.P., of East Staffordshire, aged 47. A Serious Situation. Cairo, April 29. Emboldened by the disaffection of the garrison at Berber, and the countenance which he is now receiving from the Nubian rebels, Osman Digra, the representative of the Mahdi in the Eastern Soudan, is rapidly collecting supplies and men, and threatens that he will advance upon Assouan, a border town of Egypt proper, near the first cataract on the Nile. In view of the recent refusal of the British Government to despatch an expedition into Soudan, the threats of the Arab Chief are causing much uneasiness here. [Received May 1, 1 p.m.} The Frozen Meat TradeLondon, April 30 The cargo of mutton on board the as. Fenstanton from Port Chalmers has been landed in excellent condition. The first portion was placed in the market to-day, and realised to 6d per lb.