ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2305, 24 August 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLENEWS.

[betjtee’s teeeqeams.] LONDON, August 22. The French Treaty. In the House of Commons last night a question was put to the President of the Board of Trade, with a view of ascertaining the intentions of the Government with regard to the Anglo-French commercial treaties. In reply, the Bight Hon. J. Chamberlain stated that negociations between the French and British Governments were only suspended for a time, and he trusted that proposals which France was shortly expected to make would allow of their resumption at an early date. The Markets. Consols have declined -J- to 99f. New Zealaud securities have further declined 10s all round, to-day’s quotations being as follows :—Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan, 104; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 103 Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 100£. The market rate for discount has advanced i to 3 per cent.; Bank rate remains at 3 per cent. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has further advanced Is, to 565, and New Zealand wheat, ex ship, to 55s 6d. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is unchanged at 40s 6d. English harvest operations are hindered by continued bad weather Martell’s and Hennessy’s brandy is quoted at lls 3d. CAPETOWN, August 22. The Dissatisfied Boers. Telegrams to hand from Pretoria announce that considerable discontent is being manifested by the Boers generally with the convention agreed to between the Triumvirate and the Royal Commission. Strong complaint is made that the settlement arrived at greatly favors the Transvaal Kaffirs, and is detrimental to the interests of the Boer people.