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[reuter’s telegrams]. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, Jan. 9. j Consols 99£. New Zealand Securities reI main at yesterday’s quotations. Adelaide I wheat, ex warehouse, 48s fid ; New Zealand ! ditto, 43s fid to 465. Adelaide flour, ex i store, 335. Australian tallow, best beef, 42s ; ' best mutton, 44s fid. The market rate of * discount advanced to 3 6-8 per cent. Bank rate 5, January 10. The death is announced of Sir Samuel Martin, formerly one of the Barons of the Exchequer, aged 82. CAPETOWN, January 9. News is to hand that further engagements have taken place between the Boers and the i Natives on the western frontier of the 1 Transvaal, under Mapoch, resulting in the defeat of the former. BUDA-PESTHj Jan. 9. Heavy rains have fallen in Hungary and serious floods have resulted, causing great destruction of property and the death of many people* PARIS, Jan. 10. The French press, in discussing the circular issued by England to the Powers explaining its intentions in regard to Egypt, urge that France should hold to its position in that country* NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The Princess Louise is now at Charleston, South Carolina, and remains there for the i Winter. Her Royal Highness is greatly itn- : proved in health. 1 A serious fire occurred to-day at one of the ’ leading hotels in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was completely destroyed, and 76 persons perished in the Hames. COLOMBO, Jan. 10. i Arabi, and the leading Egyptian rebels who ■ have been exiled to Ceylon, arrived to-day from Suez.