CABLE MESSAGES.
. [RkCTKR’s TKr.KC.RAMS.] LONDON. August 27. Three per cent, consols, 975 ; New Zealand, iO4 ; five per cent. 103j. At wool sa/es to-day, 940J bales wore catalogued. Tone of the market is quieter. There is, however, good demand for fine wools, while inferior and medium are neglected. Homeward Australia and New Zealand mails via Brindisi delivered to-day NEW YORK. August 27. General Grant lias accepted Chairmanship of Nicaragua Canal Company. The revolution in Republic at Tlayti (San Domingo) has been suppressed. MELBOURNE. August 28. Mr Berry, in (he Assembly to-day, proposed an Imposition of-Stamp Tax, Irma which ho expected £70,000 would be raised. He further proposed to take 10 per cent, off duty mi hardware, forego altogether the duty on drugs, and reduce the duties on Soft goods by £25,000.
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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 454, 30 August 1879, Page 2
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130CABLE MESSAGES. Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 454, 30 August 1879, Page 2
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