CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 3, 1 June 1885, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BLBrTttlO TKLSUIIA.DII. OJPrRUHtT) SPECIAL TO UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION. London, May 29. The New Zealand loan of one million and n half will be placed on the market to-morrow. Captain Brennaii, of Victoria, the inventor of the turo<ulo bearing his name, has received a large amount from the lOugliah GoveriMiJi-nt foi his patent rights. Tlio New Z-ftland loan is already quoted at a premium of \\ per cent. It is expected that the average will he about £99. The several Agents-General and Sir Charles Tupper, High Co.iiiiiieHinoer f«r Canada, are urging upon the Government the exemption of Colonial securities frmii stamp duty. Th« Colonial Institute ore also urging n,ou the Government i!i>« necrsaity ot granting more favnrahl" >: ■■w> -ssious m n.-gard to the importa'ti •:: of Colonial wines. Auoth r .livrturn by Mr ; J. E. MilUis, R.A., " Tn« ttuling passion,*' exhibited at the ttoyal Academy, has been purchased for the .Sj'dney Art Gallery. May 3C. The Agfnts-General for the Cape of Good Hopu and Australian OoloiiieH presented a joint petition to Mr Childer*, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking for a reduction of wine duties, m spite of the fact that a rupture has occurred m the negotiations of the commenial | treaty with the Spanish Goverutuunt. The project which was set on foot to I establish an hospital at Port Said as a inoiuorial to the late General Gordon having fallen through, the subscribers ar« now considering to what use tiie funds will lie put.