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(Special to The Mail.) London, May 6. Consols have advanced to 102|. The market rate of discount has heeD .reduced to 2 per cent. The bank rate remains at 2£. Adelaide flour ex warehouse is unchanged at 48s. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,070.000 quarters. Australian best beef tallow has advanced to 34s 6d ; best mutton remains at 3Gs. The Board of Trade returns for last month show the imports to have amounted to £35,200,000, being a decrease of £5,375 000, compared with the month of April 1880. The exports amounted to £18,125,000 or decrease of £500,000 compared with last your. May 7 •• It is officially announced that the Earl of Dufforin at present British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, will succeed the Right Hon. G. (roschen as Ambassador at Constantinople after the Turko-Grcek difficulty has received its final settlement. The Right Hon. Sir Edward Thornton, at present British Minister to the United States, will succeed Lord Duffunn at the Russian Court. The Marquis of Salisbury has assumed the leadership of the Conservative party in the House of Lords. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone is at present indisposed, but his illness is not of a nature to cause alarm. Paris, May 7. Barthelemey St Ililaire the Minister for Foreign Affairs made a statement to-day, regarding the indentions of his Government toward Tunis. lio announced that after the Tunisian tribe of Kiotunirs had been punished by the French troops., the expedition would terminate and dip om iiic negotiations with the F> w follovr.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 503, 10 May 1881, Page 3
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263Telegraphic News. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 503, 10 May 1881, Page 3
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