CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3820, 26 March 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Reutek's Special.]

' London, March 23. Consols reiaaiu at par. New Zealand securities are firm at last quotations.

London, March 24,

There is little inquiry for best sides of Australian hides, and prices are one eighth of a penny lower. At the wool sale to-day, 9000 bales were catalogued. The tone of the market continues firm. Twenty one thousand bales have been withdrawn_from.sale.since the opening. A motion similar to that recently passed by the House of Lords in favor of the retention of the British troops at Candahar is now being debated in the House of Commons.

In the House of Commons to-day a question was put to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with the object of ascertaining whether the Government were in possession of information as to the intentions of' the Russian Government in regard to Central Asia. In reply, Sir Charles Dilke stated-that Government had learned that one of; the first acts of Czar Alexander 111 had been to definitely recall, General Skobeloff, and order the permanent cessation of hostilities against the Turcomans. It is announced that orders have been telegraphed from the Horse Guards to General Sir Frederick Roberts, at the Cape, instructing him to return to England, without proceeding to the Transvaal, in accordance with instructions issued to him on his departure from England. Arrived: Waiapa, from Port Chalmers, December 4th. . -