LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1528, 10 January 1879, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. [SPECIAL TO THE PBES3 AGENCY.] London, January 3. Arrived—Ship Soukar from Lyttelton. The Bank of England reserve has increased to nearly a million. Consols, 95i. The market for Colonial debentures is quiet. There were 300 tenders for the South Australian loan at an average of 88{. Bank dividends are generally equal to last year's rates. The corn market is weak with a downward tendency. New Zealand wheat firm at 41s to 455. [reuter's telegrams to pbess agency.] London, January 3. Tenders for the new South Australian loan were received up to £1,175,100, the prices ranging; between 88 and 90. A proposal to take the entire loan at 88 was refused. Paris, January 5. The French Senatorial elections were a great Republican triumph. Fifteen Conservatives and sixty-four Republicans were returned. Capetown, January 5. The frontier disputes at the Cape are settled in favor of the Zulus. London, January 6. New Zealand Fives, 99. AUSTRALIA. [special to press agency.] Melbourne, January 9. Rust exists in some portions of the wheat producing districts to a serious extent. It is estimated that one-fourth of the wheat area of the colony is destroyed. At the unveiling of the statues of the Q.ueen, Prince and Princess of Wales at the National Gallery Sir Richmond Barry favored throwing open the Library and Museum on Sundays.