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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1357, 21 December 1885, Page 3

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fMCm*** TIIMRIHD —OOFTkIfiHT 1 Mr Gladstone’s Policy* London, Deoember 18. Mr Gladstone annonnces that the article published in yesterday’s Pall Mall Gazette is without foundation, He denies the existence of any such scheme as that attributed to him by the Writer of the article, and disavows any intention of acting in the manner indicated therein. Mr Gladstone takes the opportunity of stating that anp nouocemepts in the newspapers at relative to the line of policy 'he has determined to adopt are mere * conjectures, as he has not yet made • known his intentions to anyone. The Afghan Frontier. The wort of delimiting the RussoAfghan frontier has been brongbt to a standstill in consequence of the extremely divergent views of the representative* of England and Rumia regarding the inclusion of Merutschak In the teifitory of the latter country. 4 . iri& Parliament. ■V.*; , ‘ l oNDrts, December 19 The. Tihtes to-day states that Mr Gladstone has submitted to . Her Majesty the Queen a l plan for the reeambhshtaent of an Irish Parliament, and ; further announces that Her Majesly 'har the scheme to her ■ Ministers for approval. Egyptian. CoHOTAsnsforL*. December 19. Mukhtar Pasha, who was appointed Turkish Commissioner to Egypt with Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, has not yet left this city, the recent hostile encounters between’Soudanese Arabs and BntisH troops bavin?[Tendered the Anglo-Turkish ‘Convention a dead letter for the" piescnt. Wool Sales. - ’ December 18. - ortythoujaandbalcs havearrived up series. o£x olonia!. jfl(B^l»lfcli<Wis^ i whtch oegitT on January Tlje total number of bales which It a probable will be offered is 200,000 over last sales. Shipping. Loudon, December 19. The New Zealand Shipping Coy’s Tongariro sailed from Plymouth for ' Auckland and Wellington this afternoon. She will call at Teneriffe and the Cape of Good Hope en route. Tl» Mailn . The New Zealand Mails which left Auckland oa Nov. 10. were delivered here yesterday, via San Francisco, two days before due date. Monetary and Commercial. , Consols New Zealand securities—s per cent 10-40 loan, 104; per cent 1879-1904 loan, 104; 4 per cent Inscribed stock, xoo. Bank rate, 4 per cent; market rate, B*£. Adelaide wheat, ex Store, 395; ditto, off coast, 30s; New Zealand wheat, ex store. 28s to 375, according to grade; ditto, off coast, average .3 is 7j£d. Adelaide dour, ex store, 235., Tallow —Australian, fair average quality beef, 25s per cwti mutton, 265. The total quantity of wheat affokt for the United Kingdom is 2,550,000 quarters less than last Bpek. New Zealand frozen mutton is Worth to per lb.