CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 57, 4 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, Feb. 1. The London Gazette to-day contains an announcement conferring the following honors: —To be Knight Commanders of the Order of St. Michael and St. George: The Hon. Frederick Whitaker, ex-Premier of New Zealand, and Sir George Wigram Allen, Knight, ex-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. To be Companions of the same Order: Mr. Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, and Mr. Thomas Archer, late Agent-General for Queensland. The P. and O. s.s. Ballarat, leaving for Australia, takes the following specie shipments:—£lso,ooo for Adelaide, £70,000 for Melbourne, and £200,000 for Sydney. It is staled that it has been discovered that the baker at the Royal Palace at Peterhoff endeavored to poison the whole of the Imperial family of Russia with strychnine. The inquiry into the wreck of the s.s. Duke of Westminster, on the coast of the Isle of Wight, concluded to-day. The Court found the master at fault, and suspended his certificate for six months. The total reserve in the Bank of England in notes and bullion is £12,600,000, being a decrease of £lOO,OOO during the week. The proportion of reserve to liabilities has fallen to 41 per cent, The Bank rate of discount remains at 8 per cent. The market rate has advanced to 2|. Consols remain at 101$, and New Zealand securities as follows: —Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 105; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 103£; 4| per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 101 J; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100. There is no change in the Colonial produce markets, Paris, Feb. 1. I. A French Government loan of £14,000,000 sterling is announced. p Cairo, Feb. 1. ' News has been received here that the garrison at Sankat are now without food, and that, owing to the number of Arabs surrounding the town, relief is impossible.