REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 842, 12 June 1879, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. ’ London, June 9. The Board of Trade returns of exports for last month show a slight improvement. ■ Three per. Cent. Consols, 97f; Five per Cent. New Zealand Loan, 104; Adelaide wheat, per 496 lbs, ex warehouse, 48s ; Adelaide flour, per 280 lbs., ex warehouse, 31s. , The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britian is 1,600,000 quarters. Best Australian beef tallow, 31s per cwt.; best Australian mutton tallow, 335, per cwt. The total stock of tallow is 12,580 casks. Wool very active, LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, June 7. Great demonstrations are to be held to day and to-morrow against the executions for rape. June 11.’. The Normanby has arrived at Codktown. According to the hews from Hong Kong to May 15th, the negotations between Russia and China have broken off. General Giant arrived at Hong Kong on the 23rd April, and proceeded to Shanghai cn May 12th. [special.] Sydney, June 11. The parents of the victims condemned for rape interviewed the Governor for mercy. The mob accompanying the deputation yesterday were excluded from the Government precincts by a display of mil'tary force. The scaffold is in course of erection. The agitation is intense. ■ —♦ • [special to the globe.] Sydney, June 9, Twenty'thousand persons yesterday made a demonstration against the execution for rape, and thirty thousand are going in procession to Government. 1 louse to demand a reprive. The excitement is great. M r Rntler, a famous barrister, dropped dead while addressing the Bench.