REUTERS TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1113, 24 April 1880, Page 2

REUTERS TELEGRAMS.

♦ BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 21. Adelaide have suffered a further decline.- Wheat is 54s per 496 lbs ex warehouse, and flour per 2801bs, px warehouse, 39sv -New Zealand wheat, ex ship, is quoted to-day at 51sj being a decline of Is on last quotations. .Consols, Ney Zealand securities, and tallow are unchanged. At the wool sale to-day 1,000 bales

were offered, nu.kinga total of 18,5000 catalogued since the opening. There was a good demand at to-day's auction,: and cross-breds were firmer. April 22. The. Beaconsfield Ministry have tendered tlieir resignation to the Qaeen. It is stated that her Majesty has accepted the sarise, and summoned Lord Hflitingjon to form a new Ministry, but he declined the task in favor of Gladstone. '■' Montagu Cony, C.B;, private secretary to Beaconsfield when Prime Minister, will be raised to the peerage. Sir Charles Gavah Duffy* late: Speaker of the Victorian Assembly, lias been invited to stand for an Irish Borough in the Home Rule interest. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS-. Sydney, April 22. The ballot among the miners' lodges has proved adverse to the masters' recent offer and a strike is considered probable in the Newcastle district. Sailed—Zealandia, with the San Francisco mail. •. Melbourne, April 22. The ship Iron Duke, about which considerable anxiety, was felt, has arrived from London. The steamship Norfolk, which left. Plymouth on the 20th, goes to Lyttelton and Wellington, and thence to. Sydney. There is a considerable amount of mining speculation in Ballarat at the present time. An official telegram announces that Major Strahan, at psesent Governor of the Wind ward West Indies, has been appointed Governor of Tasmania, vice Weld.

, . . . ■ . Api.il 23. Gordon, C.E., has been Ve-employed by the Government as Chief Engineer of the Water Supply ..Department. Pig. iron is in good "demand owing to light shipments.