TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1367, 18 July 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 13. Tenders for a loan of £300,000 at 5 per cent, for the Napier Harbor Board, tlie minimum of which was fixed at par, were opened to-day, when ihe toiai amount of lenders were found to be £i ,30(1,000. Tenders at £lO4 13s «i 1 receive 30 per cent, of their application, and those above that in full. July 14. Tiio Hon.. F. Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in an interview to-day with the Colonial AgentsQeneral, promised to ask Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador at Paris, to continue his efforts for the protection of Australian interests with regard to the recidiviste question. The placing on the market of the New South Wales loan has been delayed, pending the fixing of the mini- ( mum. July 15. It is currently reported that the Pacific Mail Company’s service between Sydney, Auckland and San Francisco will bo withdrawn in November next, when, the present agreement expires, the reason being that the Colonies of New South Wales and New Zealand are unwilling to contribute a subsidy.

It is announced that Colonel Sir B. J. Lloyd Lindsay, Y.C., M.P. for Berkshire, has been elevated to the peerage. The Munster Bank { Limited), which his branches in the principal towns in the South of Ireland, has suspended payment. The Times says that New South Wales will have little difficulty in obtaining the new loan, despite the protest of the City brokers. Consideration of the Federation Enabling Bill in Committee has been postponed from to-morrow until Monday next. Sir Saul Samuel, Ageot-Genend for New South Wales, has, on behalf <»t bis Government, submitted further amend ments in the Bill. It is reported that H.M.S. Beacon will be presented to one of the Australian colonies. She is a double screw composite gun vessel of 680 tons, carrying four guns, The New Zealand Shipping Company’s R.M.S. Tongariro, from Wellington (left June 7th), arrived at Plymouth last night. Her frozen meat cargo is reported in good condition. At a meeting of the Federation League, held at Liverpool to-day, reso lutiens were passed affirming that the federation of the Empire is essential, but deprecating any attempt to interfere with the rights of local Parliaments,

The Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend for the past halfyear of per cent, per annum, and carries forwarl and places to the reserve fund £56,000.

The balance-sheet of the National Bank of Nevr Zealand shows the doubtful debts at £131,000, £IOO,OOO of the capital account, and £IO,OOO from the reserve fund, have been transferred to a contingent bad debt account. July 16. All the Powers with the exception of Russia assent to England issuing an Egyptian loan. This is reported as a triumph for the Marquis of Salisbury. Bomb, July 16. The Most Rev. R. Moran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, arrived here to-day. Saw Francisco, July 14. , The Pacific Company's s.s. Australia from Auckland (left 23rd June) arrived here on the 12th inst.