THE WOOL AUCTIONS QUIET.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3803, 22 September 1883, Page 3

THE WOOL AUCTIONS QUIET.

DELIVERY OF COLONIAL AUGUST MAILS IN LONDON. RETURN OF MR GLADSTONE TO ENGLAND. EXPLORATION OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS. NEW ZEALAND~LOANS CONVERTED INTO INSCRIBED STOCK. GRAND MILITARY REVIEW IN GERMANY. CONTINUANCE OF ANTI-MAGYAR RIOTS IN SOUTHERN AUSTRIA. —FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND MOB. LONDON. September 20. At to-day's wool auctions a quiet tone again prevailed. The comprised 11,900 bales. Since the opening of tho series 3-1,000 bales have been withdrawn from sale. The total amount catalogued since the opening of the present series is 299,000 bales. The homeward mails per Orient steamship Liguria, from Melbourne on August 8, -were delivered to-day via Naples. September 21. Mr Gladstone arrived at Gniyesend yesterday from his yachting cruise in the Baltic. Professor Nordenskvold, the Swedish explorer of the Artie regions, who has recently returned from an expedition to Greenland, reports that the interior of that country consists of an ice desert of enormous extent, tho existence of which was previously un-

known, The Bank of England announces the following New Zealand loans to beforthwith converted into four per cent, inscribed stock, namely, four and a half per cent. 5-30 1579----190-1 loans, £6,000,000; five per cent. 5-30 1881-1906 loan, £1,250,000, and five per cent, floating loans, amounting to £1,832,000, making a total of £9,082,000 to be converted.