NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5612, 25 March 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY.) • London, March 22. The money market Is easier, and the discount rates in , the -open market are considerably below the Bank minimum. The stock markets are steady, and Government debentures brisk ; the scrip of the new Victorian loan are quoted at a hundred. Wool is firrrier and there is a .better attendance at the sales the home trade being less reserved. There’ is, however, no noticeable alteration in The corn market is easier. New Zealand wheat, 435. 6d. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Paris, March 22. ‘ The Chamber of Depties has voted a resolution by a large majority to amend the Constitution. An order empowers the French Chambers to sit in Paris instead of Versailles. ", i . London, March 221 Wheat is a shilling lower ; mutton and tallow sixpence lower. ■ Latest news from Capetown is to the sth of March. . No further fighting had taken place since the last advices. Manivrasi, chief of Basutu Land, is in open rebellion against British rule."

Athens, March 23. The Turkish Commissioners having refused the proposed extension of the Greek frontier, the Grecian Commissioners have returned here. ; The Greek Government has issued a circular note invoking the mediation of the Great Powers.

Sydney, Monday, ! Hr. i Tyrrell, the. Bishop of Newcastle, is

dying. . ; Brisbane, Monday, i Sir Maurice O’Connell, President of the Legislative Council, died yesterday.