CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4051, 22 December 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Bbutsb's Special .]

London, December 20 Consols have further declined to-day to

91*.

Colonial breadstuff's are without quotable change. In New Zealand securities, 5 per ceut. 10-40 loan hare declined to 104; 5 per cent. 1889 loan are unchanged at 104 and 104}; and 1879-1904 loan at 101£.

Best Scotch pig iron No. 1 f.o.b. in Clyde, has declined to 535..

A very severe storm continues over the greater part of England. The gale has been blowing for the past two days, and has caused further serious destruction in

many places.

New Yo^k, December 20.

Intelligence has been received here regarding the Arctic exploring vessel Jeanet. The news to hand is to the effect that she was crushed by the ice io June last, and was abandoned, the officers and crew taking to the boats. One boat load were rescued by the natives on the Siberian coast, and were forwarded on to Irkutsk, in Siberia. Another boat reached the mouth of the Hirer Lena, and its crew were suffering fearfully. The other boat is missing, and it is feared all who were on board have perished.

Constantinople, December 20.

The Sultan has issued an iladi, sanctioning the settlement armed at between the Turkish Commission and the Bondholder's delegates regarding the Ottoman debt. ,>■■ CoßßKCTioN:—Yesterday's telegram, London, Deo. 19, should read—

Intelligence is to hand from Africa that a false prophet who had collected 2,600 negro fanatics in the Soudan has massacred 300 Egyptian troops.