CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4491, 28 May 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Beuteb's Telegbams

[Eeceived May 28,150 p.m ]

London, May 26,

Consols are quoted at 102, an advance of £• New Zealand securities—s per cent 10-40 loan have declined 20s, and are now at 105; 4| per cent 1879-1904 loan have declined by 10s to 102; 4 per cent inscribed stock is quoted at 102, showing an advance of 10s; 5 per cent 1889 loan remains at 104. Colonial breadstuff's and tallow are unchanged. Sydney, This day. Sundries: copper is quoted at £20, being a decline of 15s. Best Australian leather is at 9?d. At the wool sale to day 13,400 bales were catalogued, and there was a firm and active demand.

London, May 27.

The steamship British King, from New Zealand, arrived here yesterday. The refrigerator worked satisfactorily throngh* out the passage. The meat on board is in good condition.

Major Evelyn Baring, who is about to proceed to Egypt goes thither as British Minister in succession to Sir E. Malet.

May 25

Intelligence is to hand announcing an anti-Jewish outbreak occurred at Rostoff in Russia. Many acts of cruelty have been committed, and the houses of Jews plundered and burnt. The military authorities are, it is stated, powerless to stop the outbreak.

London, May 25.

Among the birthday honors announced in the Gazette" to-day are the following appointments and promotions :—Dr Alfred Boberts, of Sydney, to be a Knight Bachelor; Mr Geo. Dcs Voenx, Governor of Fiji, and Aug. Charles Gregory, C.M.G., of Queensland, and the Hon. William Morgan, late Premier of South Australia, to be Knights Commanders of the Order of St. Michael and St. George ; Dr Yon Haasfc, of New Zealand, and Mr Charles Bright, of Melbourne, to be Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

The race for the Oaks Stakes resulted as follows :—Bonny Joan, 1: Malibran, 2; Etarre, 3. St Petersburg, May 26. The Czar has issued a manifesto on the eve of his coronation. The proclamation announces a qualified amnesty to the Polish insurgents who took part in the revolt of 1863 with partial remission of penalties and arrears of taxation. D»To mention is made in the manifesto of Constitutional reform. CAiBO,May26. News is to hand from the Soudan announcing the death of Abdel-Kaider Pasha, commander of the Egyptian expedition against £1 Mahdi. ' Pabis, May 26. The French in Cochin-China. ; Despatches to hand from Cochin-China report that the French recently made a sortie against Hanoi Aunamese, the capital, but were repulsed'with considerable losi,

Commodore Eivere, commanding the French naval force, being killed. Annamese was subsequently surrounded by the French forces from Harphono, who are now besieging it. Beinforcements are asked for by the French commander. London, May 27. The latest intelligence from China reports that much excitement prevails in consequence of the action of the French in Tonquin, and it is believed that a ! rupture of diplomatic relations between China and France is imminent.

[Specials to the Pbess Association*]

London, May 25. In the House of Lords Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, expressed regret at the French action with regard to Madagascar. The Egyptian Minister of the Interior has been dismissed from office on grounds of bribery. Archbishop Croke states that he will obey the mandate of the Pope. Her Majesty the Queen proceeds to Balmoral today. The Arnock railway bridge over the Indus has been opened. The Morning Post says that the Queensland and Fijian planters have a right to defend themselves before an impartial commission from the charges brought against them of misusing black labour.