SECOND EDITION. TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2504, 17 April 1882, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH &_EOREIGN [betjter'b telegrams.] LONDON, April 14. Ihe Markets. Consols aro unchanged at 10 New Zealand Five per Cent. 10-40 Loan and Five per Cent. 1889 Loan both remain at 105 ; tho Four-and a-Half per Cent. Loan has advanced to 103 J. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, remains at 545, New Zealand do at 51s; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 365. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,420,000 quarters. Australian tallow is unchanged at 42s for best beef, and 45s for best mutton. Scotch pig iron is unchanged. No. 1, f o.b. in Clyde, is selling at 50s per ton for 26in gauge; and best Sydney copra has advanced to £l6 per ton. Australian Wines in the English Market. The " Times" in the course of an article to-day refers to the fact of tbo great reduction which has been made manifest during the past year in the sale of alcoholic liquors in Great Britain, and expresses the opinion that the falling off in the consumption of spirits should greatly stimulate the sale of colonial winos in the English market. Tho " Times" concludes by urging Australian growers to push tho sale of their wines in England with energy.

PARIS, April 14. Parnell and the PressMr Parnell has, during his stay in this city, refused to be interviewed by members of Press the or other persons.

NEW ZEALAND.

iFBB FBBSS ASSOCIATION, j MABTERTON, April 17,

Suicide-

A young Swedish engineer, named Chsrpeutier, reoently arrived, shot himself through the forehead with a double-barrel pistol la«t evening. Death was instantaneous. The event happened near Maurioeville. PATBA, April 17. The Steamer Patea AbandonedThe Fatea Company's steamer Patea was abandoned to the underwriters yestorday. Captain Bendall arrived an Saturday, with applianoes, and attempted to get her off by the evening's tide, but she was hurled violently against the cliff, a quantity of which fell upon her, and, her hull being stove in, sbe filled with water and sank. There was a miraculous escape of the donkey engine bursting. The Patea was insured for half her value as follows :—Union, £IOOO ; South British, £IOOO ; Colonial, £SOO. WELLINGTON, April 17. Property Tax DefaultersAbout a dozen persons were sued for the property tax, and the 10 per cent, oases were set down for this morning ; but all had paid but two, against whom orders were made. DUNE DIN, April 17. Committed. At the City Court, Thomas Hodgetts was committed for trial for robbery from 'the person. The libel Casein the Supreme Court the libel action, Turnbull v David Proudfoot, has oommensed. Mr Bathgate's name was struck out for misjoinder. The libel alleges that Turnbull and Bathgate attempted to work a swindle by foisting valueless lands on the New Zealand Mortgage and Investment Company. The letter is anonymously signed " A Friend," and addressed to Sir W. Drake, London, chairman of the company. INVEaCARGILL, April 17. The Maid of Otago. The Maid of Otago, on arriving frim Dunedin, broke her cable, and ran into (he bridge over the Aparima at Biverton. 1h& vessel is much injured, and nearly full of water, and the greater portion of her cargo will be damaged.