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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1278, 12 June 1884, Page 3

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[rEUTKR’s TEI.EOR.IMS—OOPTKIOHT. ] England and Sumatra. London, June 10. It has transpired that in a despatch addressed by Earl Granville to the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs, his Lordship strongly insists that England’s mediation should be accepted with a view to obtain a release of the crew, numbering twenty-five, mostly Englishmen, of the wrecked steamer Nisero, and who have been held in bondage since November last by the Rajah of Tenom in Sumatra. A Denial. In the House of Common? to-day, Mr Gladstone took occasion to deny the truth of the statement that had been made, that it had been decided that Turkish troops should be despatched to pacify Soudan. The Dynamite Plots. Lord Edmund Fitz Maurice, Foreign Under-Secretary, in reply to c, question in the House of Commons to-day, staled that diplomatic representations had been made to the United States Government regarding the freedom allowed in America to persons assisting in dynamite plots in this country. Tha Oriental Bank. London, June 11 It is understood that the order granted by the Court of Chancery for the liquidation of the Oriental Bank Corporation affairs will supersede the decision recently given by Judge Molesworth in the Melbourne Supreme Court, whereby the Victorian business of the Corporation was ordered to be wound up local'y. The Colonies. In the course of a speech which he made at a meeting at the Royal Colonial Institute last night, the Right Hon W. E. Forster insisted strongly upon the necessity of maintainng union between the Mother Country and the colonies, and deprecated any attempt on the part of the Imperial Government to shirk the duties which it owed to the outlying portions of the empire. Monetary and Commercial. Consols remain at par, and New Zealand securities at the following quotations Five percent. 10-40 Loan, 104; Five per cent. 1889 Loan, 102 ; Four and a half per cent. 18791904 Loan, 102; Four per cent Inscribed Stock, too#. The markets for colonial breadstuff's and tallow are without quotable change.. The Wool Sales. At to-day’s wool sale 6,500 bales were catalogued, and good competition was experienced. Ihe Fall of Berber. Canto, June 10. Latest reports confirm the announcement oif the fall of Berber, and state .that the Egyptian Governor and his garrison, and all Europeans in the town, were massacred by the rebels.