LATE LONDON TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 60, 10 March 1880, Page 2

LATE LONDON TELEGRAMS.

TPer Ringarooma at the Bluff.] London, March 1. Consols are unchanged at 97§. 1? our and a half per cent Victorian debentures £103 10s. Five per cent New South Wales, with two p&r cent annual drawing, 1871 to 1870, £104 10s. Four per cent New South Wales, £97 10s. Six per cent Tasmanian, 1893 to 1901, £112. Five per cent Victorian, 1894, £106 103. The quantity of wheat afloat at this date is 1,790,000 quarters beiug 40,000 quarters less than the quantity afloat last Monday. Adelaide wheat per 496 lbs ex warehouse, S.s 6d; Adelaide flour per 280 lbs ._■ warehouse 425; best Australian beef tallow 3Gs ; ditto mutton Ullow 375. Tin has risen ;.s, Straits and Australian being now quoted at £93. Copper is unchanged, Burra Burra stands at £80 10s, and Wallawoo at £82. March 2. Mr W. Foster, late Agent General for New South Wales delivered a lecture on colonization before the Society of Arts. He attacked the emigration policy of the Australian colonies and remarked that political success was achieved by men of the worst commercial and social character. This aroused a hot discussion, Sir Chas. Nicholson Bart, Mr H. R. Torr, Mr Alderman Solomons, and others warmly commenting on the the lecture, and the discussion was stopped on the ground of its strongly political character. A more peaceful impression prevails since Ministers' speechs on the German Army Bill. The friendly overtures made by General Roberts to the hostile Afghan Chiefs have not been attended with success. Mahomed Jan, who keeps the field with a large force, when first communicated with evinced a seeming disposition to enter into negotiations with the view of terminating the war, but on ascertaining the terms of peace proposed he expressed dissatisfaction and refused any further conference. It is reported that attempts were made ineffectually to renew diplomatic relations, so that there is no alternative left other than to renew hostilities upon an extensive scale as soon as the severe winter weather has moderated. The St. Gothard railway tunnel has at length been completed, the workmen commencing at opposite ends having on Saturday communicated with each other. The success of this gigantic work has given great satisfaction. The Morning Post has a leader in to day's issue upon the result of the general elections in Victoria, and expresses much satisfaction at the defeat of the Berry Government. The Czar being in constant apprehension of attempts upon his life by Nihilists has decided to leave St. Petersburgh for the present, and return to Lividia, his palace in Southern Russia. The present series of wool sales closes on the 12th inst. Greasy has touched Is 10J-d per lb.