CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1372, 5 November 1884, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

LATtST FROM EUROPE[bbdtkr’k T 1 lkok AMS—copyright. T Monetary and Commercial, London, N ov. 3Consols remain at and New Zealand securities at the following quotations : —Five per cent. 10-40 Loan, 104^; Five per cent. 1889 Loan, ; Four and a half per cent, 1879-1904 Loan, Inscribed Stock, 101 %. The market for colonial breadstuff's show a further tendency to decline. Adelaide wheat, ex store, remains at 36s ; New Zetland ditto is now quoted at 30s 6d to 535; and Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 245, There is a decline of 6d in Australian tallow. The average quality of beef is 34s ; ditto mutton, 355. The market rate for discount has risen to and I the Bank rate is 4 per cent. The Congo Valley. London, Nov. 4 The International Congress of European Powers, which has been arranged with a view of arriving at the neutralisation of the Congo Valley and neighboring country, will hold their first meeting pn the 15th instant. The Cholera- ! Pams, Nov, 3. 1 The outbreak of cholera at Nantas is ' assuming serious dimensions, and despite the precautions which have been taken by the authorities, the disease continues to spread rapidly. [Received Nov 4, 2.30 p.m ] General Gordon’s Position. Cairo, Nov. 4, noon. Major Kitchener telegraphs that information has reached him that General Gordon has refused the Mahdi’s summons to surrender, and that the Mahdi has since withdrawn from Khartoum and announced his intention of making no further attack oa the place for two months.

AUSTRALIAN. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.) The Sugar Crop. Melbourne!, Yesterday. Mauritius advices of the 19th ult. report that crop accounts are favorable, and the yield of sugar is satisfactory. The market, however, has a downward tendency.