ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2345, 8 October 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[BKTJTES’S TBLEGBAMS.I LONDON, October 6. The MarketsThroe per Cent. Consols have further declined -J-, and are quoted to-day at 99-J. New Zealand securities are unchanged at the following quotations: Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan, 102 i; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 1021 ; Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 99J. Total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £10,300,000. The Bank rate of discount is 5 per cent.; market rate, 4J. Colonial hreadstnffs are without quotable change. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 595; New Zealand ditto, 57s Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 42s 6d. Australian tallow is firm at 39s fid for best beef; 43s for best mutton. Best Scotch pig iron has farther advanced 11s per ton; No. 1, f.o.b. in Clyde, is quoted to-day at 655.

A third series of wool sales closed today. The final catalogue comprised 7900 hales, for which a firm demand was experienced, making a total of 340,000 bales offered since the opening. 28,000 bales have been withdrawn, and 45,000 are held over for the next series, which commences on November 22nd. LONDON, October 7. Native Rising. Ths “ Standard ” of this morning publishes a telegram from the Cape stating that a report is current there that a serious rising of native tribes has broken oat in Zalnland. CAIRO, October 6. The Commission from Turkey, The members of the Commission despatched by the Snltan from Constantinople to the Khedive, arrived in this city to-day, and were accorded a ceremonial reception.