CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 142, 11 May 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

rKEUTKES TKI.EGHAMB.I Received May 11, 1.45 p.m. London, May 10. A d&nrention has been signed between 3pn n, Greek, Britain, or which Spain accords to Eu«land the treatment of the most favored nation, in return fur which, wine thirty degress alcoholic strength be , admitted free of the shilling duty. ' The Hon. Graham Berry, recently appointed AgenUGeneril for the colony «»f Victoria, bus arrived here and nhortly enter*, upon official duties; * Per Merchant Shipping Underwriters' | Association, arrived — S»uk«r, from jLyttelton, January 31 ; LskeErie, Lyttelton, January 29 ; Alcestes, Bluff, January 9 ; Maj Queen, Oamaru, January -21. LoNDoif , May 8. The directors of the Bank of England ! have raispd the Bank rate from 2^ to 3 per cent. ; The mails which lefty Auckland bj the Miiraroa in Maroh were delivered yester-; daj, Tin San Franciac*. > Sew Zealand frozen mutton has fallen to 5d per Ib. { The wool market continues quiet : Three hundred thounnnd bales have arrived to date tor the coming co'onial auctiona. \ The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom i« 1,870,000 quart•ra. The Toneariro left Plym«nfh to d»T. for Port Chalmers, calling ai. Mad irn! and the Cape «f Good Hope. The body of Sir L S. Leake will b«« !<entto Perth for interment. : Mr Pope, an Edinburgh ktudent,; hax been seleoted an emergency rain for the Knsliait cricket team which vixita Aus* tralia next aeanon. ' There i* a jjret demand for Viotorian! apple« and pears. ' \ \ All efforts to effect a compromise be-j tween Mesurs Gladstone snd Chamberlain; have failed. : ) The Customs authorities claim £600 j duty on the Victorian wines imported for: the Exhibition, in conseqnence of their, strength being one-fourth over-proof. The Prince and Princes, of Wales, accompanied by Sir P. S. Owen, visited the Exhibition to day. •