CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4411, 22 February 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Rkuteb's Telegbams.

[Received February 22, noon.] London, February 20. Consols, 102 J., New Zealand securities, 5 per cent. 10 40 loan, 106; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 104; U per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 103:1-. The market rate of discount has fallen to 3jf ; bank rate, 3-i per cent. Wheat remains 53s for Adelaide, ex store, and 47s to 50s for New Zealand ditto; Adelaide flour, ex store, 35s 6d. Australian tallow (beef), 425; mutton, 45s for average qualities. [Eeceived February 22, 1.30 a.m.] Rome, February 21. Eolations between Italy and Tripoli are somewhat strained. Eecently the Italian consulate at Tripoli was insulted, atfd the Italian government have now despatched an ironclad to support its demands for the punishment of, the peisons concerned in the outrage, i

FiOFDON February 19. -A special to the Press Association says: —The Press, generally depaSrids that the chiefs of the Irish Land League shall clear up the grave suspicions which now rest upon them owing to the recent disclosures. Carey, in his re-examination, stated that the murder of Mr Burke was decided on after the appearance of a certain article in the Dublin Freeman's Journal. Nineteen persons have now been committed for, participation in the Phoeiix Park and j Field assassinations. j Another message, received through the i same agency, dated London, February 20, j states that a number of newspapers de* nounce Mr Parnell's silence on the matter of the allegation against the Land League. From the same source we leara that Mr Wise, Secretary to the Land League in England, has been arrested on a charge of conveying weapons to the assassins. Caieo, February 20. The latest intelligence is to band from Soudan that El Mahdi, the pretended Mahomedan MessiaU, has occupied Obeir the capital of Korddfan.

rSPECIALS TO THE PItESS ASSOCIATION.]

London, February 19. Mr Forster has been received with enthusiasm by the House of Commons. . The Ohio river is reeding, but the Missisippi is still dangerous, and it is probable tbat the whole of the Mississippi valley will be flooded. A local agitrtion has risen in favor of Portsmouth being appoint* .1 a port of call for the mail Bteamers. . It is reported that the Powers hare decideu to surrender to Russia full control of Kilia, a fortified t >wn on the left bank of the river Danube, and about 25 miles north-east of Ismalia. Italy threatens to send ironclads to Tripoli to demand rep .ration for an insult offered to their Consul of that place. Sir Hercu.le'° Robinson is not expected to return lo Cape Town. Tiie. Secretary of the British Embassy at Teheran has been attacked while travelling through the Turcoman steppes, and eleven of the escort killed.