CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1080, 12 October 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. [REUTER —COPYRIGHT.] PARIS, Oct 9.: Later despatches from Tonquin confirm the official statement of the retreat of the Black Flags from Sontag, and state in addition ; that they • - are generally falling ba«k on all points before the French. M. Ferry has instructions to the French commandant in Tonquin to push the operations againet the enemy with ail possible speed, and complete the occupation of Annam, and the subjugation of the Black Flags as quickly as possible. LONDON, Oct 9. Consols remain at 10lf. New Zialand securities —5 per cent 10.40 loan, 103£ ; 5 per cent 1889 loan 105£ ;4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 101£ ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, lol£. . Wheat market depressed. : ex store, 45s 6d ; New Zealand ditto, to 445. / The, market for Australian tallow is firm. Best beef, 40s 6d ;best mutton, 42s 6d.

[special to press association.] LONDON, Oct 8.

A Parisian paper accuses Commodore Erskine of arrogant treatment of : the agent of the New Hebrides Company,- and urges the French Government to ’ take energetic measures. T

The steamer Palkner, built for lhe;Mel» bourne Harbour Trust, has been launched. She will carry a 5-ton gun.; 5 The enthusiasm which was displayed *1 Sir Stafford NortlicoteV visit 'to Belfast still continues. A fierce Orange-Catholic riot is raging in Ireland, and many persons . have been wounded. ' = : ; : ’ The Nihilists have sentenced the Czar to death, , .1 -