CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 139, 4 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— • — Cbbutebs tblbobams.l Received May 4, 1 a.m. London, May 3. The amount ef New Zealand stock ; brought under the conversion provisions ncwd* four millions. The death is announced in his seventy first year of the Bight Hon. Earl of Bedesdale. ■ , London, April 80. The tenders were opened to-day for the South Australian loan of £1,330.000, at 4 per eent. The minimum was fixed at 99. The total amount tendered was £2,600.000. Tenders of £102 12s 6d receive 75 per cent. ; above full. The average for the South Australian loan should be £99 ss, n«t £103 Us 0d as previously telegraphedThe Treasury will eable the wsult ef the tenders for the ocean mail service when accepted. There is no prospect of a twenty.nine days' service being ob« tained. . . The samples of tea grown in Fiji are approved by experts. The first issue of shares in the North British and New Zealand Investment Company is one hundred thousand* of which four-fifths is already subscribed. The eight hours' agitation in America it becoming general. The wheat market is quiet, but busi. ness is retained. Foreign colonial busi* ness is firmer. There have been no arrivals since last advices. One Australian cargo on the passage has been offered at 355. : May 1. The shipment of fruit received from Australia, by the Austral, hat been examined and feund in excellent condition. His Boyal Highness, the Prince of Wales, attended by Sir Phillip Cunliffe Owen, made a detailed inspection to-day I of the Indian and Colonial exhibition. His Highness was received by the AgentsGeneral and the executive committee, and expressed to them his gratification at the completeness of the arrangements and the hearty support accorded to the undertaking by the various Australasian Govern* ments. The New Zealand West Coast (8.1.) railway scheme has been successfully launched. The Adelaide court, at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition is ready, and the New Zealand court is in a forward state Australian pears are being sold at the Army and Navy Cooperative stores at 3d each. The Post Office authorities will consuit with the principal colonies before accepting any tenders for a federal mail service. The Standard denounces the programme put forth by Sir Julius Vogel, and argues that it is not safe to lend money upon it. The exhibits send from Samoa to the Indian-Colonial Exhibition have not been admitted. \ . . .. Capetown, April 30. The Eaikoura sailed yesterday evening for New Zealand ports.