LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 25 October 1880, Page 2

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(REUTEB ; S TELEGRAM. PJ2R PRESS ASSOCIATION) Loxbox, October 22. Consols have advanced to 99}. New Zealand securities have improved, and are to-day quoted as follows:— Fiye per cent. 10-40 loan, 100; five per cent, 1879 loan, 10U; foiir and a-half per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 93J. Adelaide and New Zealand wheat are unchanged. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,720,000 quarters, Australian tallow

are without quotable change. Best Sydney copra is quoted at LI 7. Best sides of Australian leather have advanced to 11 -§d. Octqber 23. Telegrams have been received from Copenhagen announcing that a severe hurricane has been experienced there, which has • caused numerous shipping casualties. Trickett and Laycock have returned from their trip to the Isle of "Wight, and are again in training at Putney. Paris, October 23. Owuig to heavy rains the environs of the port of Cherbourg are completely inundated, and much damage is being done to property. Constantinople, October 23. The German, French, and Austrian j Ambassadors to the Porte are, in accordance "svith instructions from their Governments, urging the Sultan to order Biza Pasha to surrender Dulcigno to the Montenegrins within five days. October 23. The Convention of Delegates of the Powers and Turkey, which has been sitting at Cettinge since the 18.th inst., has failed to come to any understanding as to details in regard to the cession of Dulcigno. The sittings of the Convention have accordingly been suspended. Athens, October 23. In consequence of the opposition which the Greek Ministry have met with in Parliament;, they have tendered their resignations, and a new Ministry is now in course of formation. Cape Town, October 23. Telegrams from the seat of hostilities (Basato land) report that, notwithstanding their recent defeats, the Basatos continue to act on the offensive. A large body of the enemy now threatens the rear of Colonel Clarke's position at Mapeting, which place he recently relieved with reinfoi'cements of the Cape Rifles, Teheran, October 23.

Tiie predatory tribes who reoently crossed the Persian frontier and pillaged a number of villages, and massacred many of the inhabitants, have renewed their ravages, and are continuing their depredations. The Persian troops, under Heshmekel Donlah, are rapitlly advancing against the enemy.