CABLEGRAMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 102, 16 May 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

• > ; , . London, May 14. The directors of the Bank of England' ro-day further reduced the bank rate froni 3 per cent to 2£ per cent.

NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINGENT SuAKJM, May 14. ' Lients. Airey, Wrench, and Sparrow, of the N.S.W, Contingent, have volunteered to remain behind and act as mounted scouts, after the departure of the remdini der of thq coijtingent for .A^t^wljs. | Lieut.-Colonel Richardson/ Australian has-gona j aboard thu G;m^eH r l)o^;ital ship. | | . The Orietit Company^ Orient will proj- ! bi&ily take the contingent froui JSuukiui to Bydney. , „/- | f > "

REVO'.T XT CANADA. , .• . .\ Ottawa, Ma}- 13. Advices from Saskatchewan state that a pitched battle took place on Monday lust between General Middleton's forces and the rebels under Louis Riel^ resulting in the enemy beinf? routed. „

DISSOLUTION .OF PARLIAMENT. ,v, - - LoNpbtt, M»y 13. \ In tji© House nis^h't Mr-. Gladstone ahnouneed that a Bill w>vulcL bo introduced shortly enubliug .Parlifuneat , to dissolve .in November next, 1 f x i i !

„ „ , LOAN, FOR VICTORIA.. « • Tenders wore .opened i. to-day for the Victorian loan of £4,000,000 and 4 per cent., the minimum of -which was. fixed at 99^ The 'total . amount tendered- <f or , was oVer £11,000,000. Tenders atufilOjO 13a .will receive 80 per oent.y;and.4:h!e applications above that sum 'in fdlL- i 1 A Press Association inosaa^e* say«:-4- v Theie v . weie!'fllsSJi covering £11 ',495,000^ i>. t ' •/•:.»- ;.-: '- f

! ' -jij •• HOME MARKET^. " s | . '' Udhsoltf have^furthe^ atfvancecl £, the. 7 The mHrket fate, of ciiaqovint^tpr^ay t8 furtliar xeauoea *,< ' The, markets rjite? is { now I£, anu (f tne banji rate o ; pei* oenTt fM< { iIiiUI^MoiuANrPARLIAM^ '"The'^'lVtotoHan ' ! ParHainotft' : \m't iljefea , 'further pit)r(s|j"ued:uiitil Jiiwß 11, • v '^^ f f f

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