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HOME AND FOREIGN. : [REUTER —COPYRIGHT.] (Received March 2, 1 pm.) LONDON, Feb 28. Consols remain at 102g-. The mar-, ket rate of discount has declined to and is now % below the bank rale. New; Zealand securities are at last quotations,! viz., 5 per cent., 10-40 loan, per cent. 1889 loan, IU4 ; 4L per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 102; ex div. Colonial breadstuff's are quiet at the following prices:—Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 51s; New Zealand wheat, ex warehouse (lowest price) 46s ; Adelaide flouri ex store, 34s 6cl; Australian tallow—best beef, 41s; best mutton, 445. At to-day’s wool auction 11,300 bales were offered, and there was a fair, demand. .. ; ; ? %. • .{■ % i March 1. ; The Bank of England has to-day reduced the rate of discount to three per cent. i The homeward mails via Brindisi,;' which?deft Melbdn’rhe: f bn J JaMiaYyjTß, < wore delivered yesterday. AUSTRALIAN. [REUTER. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received March 2, 1.30 p.m.) > ; ■' i It is understood that'Mr Berry and Mr Service have agreed that each should; select three colleagues in the new! Ministry. ‘> THebprbposed; final Ahglo-Anstralian ; cricket match has now been definitely; abandoned.
In the trial of Barns for the Wicke- \ liffe murder, the jury have been unable; to agree, and have been discharged. S Emily Melville, the well- known t actress, has recovered £9OO, from? Messrs y Williamson:; for; breach of contract.
The Postmaster-General that the Colonies should hold a con-i ference on the question of joining the-; General Postal Union. An accident occurred at Flinders-: street Railway Station at one o’clock; this morning. A goods train ran into | and sih a s bed. fan fun teiijah ted jpa sseriger: train\ 1 engaged in cleaning; the latter were slightly injured. SYDNEY, this day. ;
The floating, oj; the Austral has been a great’ successV is mow-in Neutral i Bay and will shortly be docked forj repairs. j
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1004, 2 March 1883, Page 3
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