CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4374, 10 January 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Reuteb's Telegrams

Pabis, January Bth. ixeneral Nimoy, of the

Obituary : French Army,

London, January 9th, evening.

Tenders^for'the Victorian four million loan at four per cent; were opened to-day. Tbe t&tal amount offered was found to bo at prices ranging from £100 to £102|. Tenders are now invited until Monday next for the unallotted balance of £3,544,500 at the minimum previously 4xed, vis., par.

London, January 9.

A bulletin issued at Hawarden reports that Mr Gladstone is suffering from insomnia. His indisposition is not, however, of a nature to cause alarm.

Sir Chas. Dilke, whose appointment to the Presidency of the Board of Trade necessitated his re-election, has been re* turned for Chelsea without opposition.

Madrid, January 8

Don Pedro Mannel Sagasta, President of the Council of Ministers, has successfully reformed the Cabinet.

New Yoek, January 8. Arrived: Ship Mendoza, from Auckland, September 13.

London, January 8,

Consols, 99f. New Zealand securities : 5 per cent. 10-43 loan, 105; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 104; 4|- per cent. 1879-1904 loan, lOlf. The markets for colonial breadstuff's and tallow are unchanged.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.]

Two hundred thousand persons viewed the body of M. Gambetta while lying in state in the Palais Sourboa. The funeral can be compared favorably with" thei ceremony on the occasion of the transfer of the ashes of Napolron. All trade was^ j suspended, and the statue of Strasbourg j was draped with black. Twenty-four regiments of the line kept the route | of the funeral procession, and three cars; loaded with vrreaths of immortelles, received from the remotest parts of France, preceded the hearse, which j was followed by the members of the Ministry and of Parliament, and by hundreds of deputations from public bodies throughout the empire, the carriages of the ambassadors of Foreign. Powers, and upwards of 50.0C0 mourners, j There were enormous crowds o' onlookers, and the cemetery was not reached until five hi urs after the procession started. At the cemetery, M. Brisson addressed those assembled, and urged the necessity of union in order to achieve Gumbetta's aspirations.

The Statist advises the Australian banks to terminate the war rate. The Pall Mall Gazette suggests thai investors should teach Victoria and New Zealand that their loan minimams rvp. too high by not applying for them. ,