CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3689, 21 October 1880, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

(Rkutm's Spboial to Association.)

Pabis, October 20. la consequence of *the action which is being taken by the French Government to carry out the March decrees and complete the expulsion of the' members of all unauthorised religious orders residing in France, the leaders of the Order of Carmelites hare determined to contest the legality of the action of the Government in ordering their expulsion and the necessary proceedings are being commenced. Monetary aad Commercial. London, October 19. . New Zealand securities are to-day quoted as follows:—ex Sptember dividends, 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 99: 5 per cent., 1889 loan, 10CU ; 4.V per cent. 1879----1904 loan, 93§. Consols remain at 98*. Adelaide and New Zealend bread•tuffs are unchanged. London, October 19. Sir Daniel Cooper, Bert., at present acting Ageat-General for New South Wales, has been created a Knight Com*

mander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

The Government offer a reward of one thousand pounds for the discovery of the perpetrators of the outrage near Bantry yesterday which resulted in the death of the driver of the carriage containing a landlord who was attacked.

In consequence of recent agrarian outrages/the county of Kerry, Ireland, has been proclaimed a disturbed district.

The Sultan's Sincerity Doubted. Constantinople, October 20.

News hag been received that a hitch has ocenred in the negotiations which have been opened at Cettinge between the delegates of the Powers and Turkey for the cession of Dulcigno. The Turkish delegate demands that a status quo shall be maintained as regards the territory east of Scutari which is required to be ceded to Montenegro. In oonsequenee of this action, the sincerity of the Porte's offer to arrange the settlement of the Montenegrin difficulty is generally doubted.