CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2974, 27 August 1878, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

LATEST.

(.Special xo Pbess Agency.)

London, August 25. A telegram from Berlin says Russia is sending fresh troops to San Stefano to replace the Guards just withdrawn; also,' that arrangements are completed between England and Turkey regarding reforms in Asia Minor.

(Reuteb's Special to Pbess Agency.)

London, August 24.

Owing to the Turks refusing to evacuate Podgoritza, in conformity with the Berlin conference, the Montenegrins are besieging it. The Consuls at Constantinople are trying to arrange the matter. It is rumored on the Stock Exchange that Lord Dufferin will be the British Commissioner in Asia Minor. It is persistently reported that President McMahon will resign in autumn. The Austrians' present loss in Bosnia is thirteen hundred men.

The money market is unchanged. Consols are ninety-four and threequarters. Business is dull on the Stock Exchange, except in Egyptain securities, which have greatly advanced owing to the settlement of finances.

The wool sales are progressing satis* factorily. Prices are well sustained at opening rates, and for the home trade there is a fair competition. Foreign buyers are operating cautiously. The corn market is easier.

Heary failures are announced. Jas, Virtue and Company, Daldy, Isbester, and Company, and Tinsley Bros., all in the publishing trade, hare failed. A Turkish army corps has been sent by Turkey to the Montenegrin frontier. Athens, August 24. Considerable difficulty has arisen in carrying out the decision of the Berlin Conference re the extension of the northern Greek provinces. Vienna, August 24. The Austrian troops hare again attacked and routed the Bosnians after serere fighting. The Golos of this morning Bays Russia is about to issue a new international loan. London, August 25. For the Dunedin Municipal Loan over two hundred and twenty-nine thousand J

one hundred pounds have been subscribed, at an average price of ninety-five oneseventh; .

The Dowager Queen Christina of Spain is dead.

A Vienna rumour says the cession of the island of Tenedos to England is probable.

There is a general mobilisation of the Austrian army. London, August 24. The Australian'eleveni havei played eighteen of Scarborough. The first innings of the Australians resulted in 295 runs; Scarborough, first innings 124 runs, second 125.: Australians won in one innings, and 46 runs to spare. ;