CABLEGRAMS.
LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN HEWS. (REOTER : S TELEGRAM, Pi'. 11 PRESS ASSOCIATION) London, May 31.
Three per cent, consols, 99§. Five per cent. New Zealand 10-40 loan, 4i per cent. New Zealand loan (1879 to 1904), 98£ ; 5 per cent. New Zealand loan (1889). 103-J, ex dividend. At the wool sales to-day, 6300 bales .were offered, -making a total of 324,400 bales catalogues since the opening. The tone of the sale throughout was firth. The Government will increase- its advance from the Church Funds to'.vard3the Irish distress to L 1,500,000. June 1. News has been received from Rangoon that owing to the disaffected state into which Burmah has been plunged through excesses by King, Theebau, the whole country is now in open rebellion. The outbreak is increasing, and has already extended to Mandalay, where the British residents were formerly stationed. DIRECT U'H RA ' U " (recter's telegram per press association.) Melbourne, June 1. There are now 51 entries, for the Melbourne Cup and 25 for the Champion Race, including Mata and Camballo. Sailed—Union Company's steamer Te Anau, for New Zealand. June 2. The party of police which left Benalla yesterday have arrived at Beechworth but. they have seen nothing of the Kellys. The debate on the Reform Bill in the Legislative Assembly still continues. Sydney, June 2. News received via Solomon Islands says that the foreign .immigrants at New Ireland are in great distress, and suffering from fever and ague, from which four deaths have already resulted. Fortyfive of the party have removed to Duke of York Island. Six weeks after the party landed on New Ireland only three were capable of exertion, and the rest were prostrated with fever, and ulcers peculiar to the island. They possessed no quinine with which to allay their sufferings. Their supplies of provisions, too, were quite insufficient, the Chandernagore having sailed suddenly after the dispute as to the leader of the party on shore, and left them without sufficient food. -
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1296, 2 June 1880, Page 2
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