CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1213, 6 March 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (RENTER'S TELEGRAM, PPB- ASSOCIATION) London, Maroh ; 4. Three per cent, consols, 97f. ! The bank rate remains unchanged.: The Bank, of England weekly returns show a total reserve in notes and bullion of L 16,625,600." " Adelaide wheat and flour and Australian tollow remain &t last quotations. At the wool-sales to-dav bales were offered. The tone of the sale was firm, and tlje bidding very active. Australian jaiad If6v?. fFapuary mails, via Suez, were delivered to-day. Constantinople, March 3. Commeroff, one of the attaches to the Russian. Embassy, recently wounded at Stamboul by the shot, of an assassin, has died of the injuries received. Berlin, March 4: '' The Emperor of Germany dined to-day at the ij&Ygngli, Embassy in this city. In the course of conyerg.atjoPv with the ambassador,: His Majesty expressed most cordial feelings towards France. , St. Petersburgh, March 4. Moadesky, a Nihilist, who was arrested iir connection with the recent attempt on thp }jfg of General Melikoff, has been tried afid found gujlfcy of the pfjfenpe. He has been sentenced to death, and >vill be hanged immediately. _ " " A Nihilist-propaganda Jias been issued: expressing regret, at the failure of .the explosion at the winter palace, and stating that a further attempt on the; life of the Czar will be made unless he, abdicates or grants reforms of the constitution demanded by the Nihilists. ,

DIRECT Atf£T&A.LI£.K NEWS. (KEUTPB'S TELEPPAM PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) MfiLEQUPNE, March 5. Mr. James Service, the new; Premier, has intimated that he will adhere to his reform proposals as set forth in his address last month to the electors '.of Maldon —namely, to maintain ;intact his former scheme of .reform,- including a joint sitting on the Norwegian plan. It is expected that Mr. Service "will a.ddrpgjj hig constituents in a few days. Mr. Bay id SSldpr eupgeeds MfSmith, ' member for a? manager of the New Zealand Mercantile Agency CQmpany in this city. The Ministry has been sworn in by His JlsceJJeijfjy fhg (governor.;,• I : TJi.e, Hop. if. W- fta§ rpaolyed upoji spliing his,fine stjijd: pf hprses, and ; retiring altogether fpom the turf. Sydney, March 5. Hpppessy's brandy? 35s to 35s 6d j Hepnessy'g. bijjk Us 3d to lis' fid, . J)evoeV kerosene,' Is M tp Is 9|d per gallon j Patna rice, L 22 ; New Zealand Wheat, 4s 04 pep bushel j New Zealand oats; gs 6d per 491bs 5 maige, gs to 3s gd per. COlbs ; Raven, twist tobacco, Is 5d per lb. ; candles, P.R.J., 8d to B|d per lb. - • «•' i Adel/Alde. March 5. The ship Devon has' been chartered to load wheat for the United Kingdom at 50s. . . ... ' New Zealand oat's are quoted at 2s 6d. . March 6. Wheat is quoted to-day, at 4s 9d. JCjnq Geokoe's Sopnd, March 6. file p. fj,nd .0, Company's; steamer Bangalore, with the Suez mail has arrived hare. She'has measlesonj board. One death occurred on the passage,