TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1426, 7 December 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

British an u foreign. [reuter’s telegrams—copyright] LONDON MARKETS London, December 4. Consols, ex div. New Zealand securities at last quotations, viz , 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 102; 434 per cent, loan, stock, 97. Colonial breadstuff's temain at the improved prices last telegraphed, Adelaide wheat, ex store, 375; New Zealand, 31s to 365; Adelaide flour, 25s 63. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the Uuited Kingdom is 1.500.000 quarters, a reduction of 100.000 quarters daring the week, Australian tallow Beef, average quality, has declined a shilling, and is now 25s 6d ; mutton remains at 30s. The wool market continues weak. The catalogue of yesterday’s sale comprised 9000 bales, and for to-day 7300 bales. New Zealand frozen mutton, prime quality, is selling at 4d.

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. London, December 6

The anti-rent agitation in Ireland is increasing daily. Numerous meetings were held yesterday in different parts of the country for the purpose of dicussing Ihe question. Several prominent me nbers of Parliament who were preI ten' delivered speeches jri which they ad icated non-payment of rents. Serious rioting took place in Corj;: yesterday evening. The police charged the mob, wounding many rioters. A ustraliTn. [reuter’s telegrams—copyright ] A STEAMER ASHORE. Bvdnet. December 6. The steamer Corangamite, while on a voyage from this port to Melbourne, ran ashore in Jervis Bay, where she now lies making a great deal of water. The crew and have already left her, several of them proceeding to Ulladulla. ANOTHER VICTORIAN LOAN. M lboukne. Deco tube 6 It is again reported that a second instalment, amounting ot the Victorian loan of ,£8,000,00 will be issued in London in January next.