TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 366, 22 March 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

■.London, March 19.

Consols have advanced tq 100£. The total quantity of wheat afloat...for Great Britain is 2,190,C00 quarters, Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 50s ? New Zealand wheat, ex ship, 36s ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 34s f Australian tallow, best beef, 33s ; best mutton, 365. Four and a half per cent New Zealand 1870-1904 loan, 97|. Best Scotch pig- iron, No. 1, free oa board in the Clyde, L 49. At the wool sales to-day 8500 bales were offered. The tone of the market was firm. There have been large withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England for North America. The authorities at the Admiralty have decided to revive the limited competitive examinations for naval cadets. Pourpositions will be reserved for candidate* . from the colonies. In the House of Commons, thf sideration of Supply is receiting rrfpicl, progress. The Irish members are abstaining from obstruction. Capetown, March 18. Intelligence has been received droro Natal that the armistice between the Boers and the British has been pro- . longed to Monday the 21st, ' • Constantinople, March 18; It has transpired that the Ambassadors of the Powers have now .made a proposal to Turkey and Greece that the latter should accept the Porte’s offer of October last to cede the districts of Thessaly and Epirus to the South of Janiora and Larissa, but the Powers turthermore suggest that the Island of Crete should also at the same time be % surrendered to Greece . :• Athens, March 17. The proposal, recently made by the* Porte to the Ambassadors of the Power*, at Constantinople tocede the Island of Crete to Greece in settlement of the Turco-Greek difficulty, as. announced yesterday, has been under the consideration of the Hellenic Goternraent. and after full deliberation the latter has informed the powers that it must absolutely decline the offer. V ; j