CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2382, 21 November 1881, Page 3

CABLE NEW S.

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[eeutee’s telegrams.] LONDON, November 17, The Markets.

Consols, 100|; Bank of England rate of discount remains at 5 per cent.; the market rate is 3§, The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England £10,500,000. New Zealand Four and a Half per Cent., 1879-1904 loan has advanced to 101-J-; Five per Cent., 10-40, and 1889 loans are unchanged, at respectively 104-1 and 104. Adelaide and New Zealand breadstuffs and Australian tallow are without quotable change. A Large Hand. An extensive robbery was to-day committed at Hatton Garden (London) Post Office. The gas in the office was suddenly turned off, and before it could be relighted a registered bank package, containing diamonds and other valuables worth £BO,OOO, was stolen. The robber has not yet been discovered. November 18. The Markets. Consols have fallen J-, and are to-day quoted at 1001, New Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan, 104; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104; Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 100 J. Adelaide wheat is unchanged at 575, ex store; New Zealand ditto, 52s 6d; Adelaide flour, ex store, 425. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,300,000 quarters. Australian tallow, best beef, 39s ; best mutton, 41a 6d. Pig iron, No, 1, f.o.b. in Clyde, 52s per ton. The TransvaalThe Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on 11th October, were delivered hero to-day. No confirmation has yet been received of the statements contained in the “ Standard ” telegram of the 16th inst, that Mopoch, one of the leading chiefs in the Lyndenbnrg district of Transvaal, had declared war against the Boors. Intelligence is, however, to hand from Durban (Natal) that the telegraph line between that place and Pretoria is broken, and no news regarding the reported outbreak of Natives can therefore be obtained.