CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4623, 29 October 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Reuters Telegrams

[Beceived October 29, 11 a.m.] London, October 27. Commercial. Consols remain at lOlf. The Bank rate of discount remains at 3 per cent., 1 market rate bas risen to 2f. New Zealand securities, 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 104|; 5 per cent.»lßß9 loan, 106|; 4| per cent. 1879-1904 loan, lOlf ; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 102. The market• for colonial breadstuff's is flat :—Adelaide wheat, ex store, 45s ; New Zealand wheat, ex store, 37s 61 to 43s 6d ; Adelaide flour, ex store, 325. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,790,000 quarters, a decline of 80,000 quarters during the week. Australian tallow is quiet, and prices have further fallen 6d per cwt.: —Best beef is quote i to-day, at 393 ; best mutton, at 40s 6d. Australian hides are in good demand, prices of a penny higher. ";- Ottawa, October 27. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lome have sailed for England, the GovernorGeneralship of the Dominion having beenformally assumed by the Marquis -of L^nsdowne. Constantinople, October 27. Russia and Bulgaria UnfrisadlyIntelligence is to hand from Sofia that relations between Russia and Bulgaria, which have for some time past been strain-d.have now become most unfriendly. Eussian officers who were acting as aide's de camps to Prince Alexander, have been recalled by the Czar, and Prin< s Alexander, on his part has dismissed his Minister of War, a Russian, and all Eussian officers in the Bulgarian service and has furthermore ordered all Bui" garians now in Russia forthwith to return to their own country.

London, October 22.

Arrived at Plymouth, to-day: The P. and 0. steamship Australia, from Me\bourne, August 28. * ;i

New Yobe, Oct. 22. Arrived: The ship Rebecca, Captain Crowell, from Auckland, July 9-

Lokdon, October 25.

TEe-Homeward mails, via Suez and Brindisi, from Melbourne, September 11, were delivered here to-day.

Vienna, Oct. 25.

At the sitting of the Austro-Hungarian delegation to-day, Count Kalrioky, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the course of his speech took occasion to emphasise the cordiality existing between Austria, Gerrmmy, and Ituly, and added that the relations with Eussia were in the normal to_ie, the Russian Press being the cole element of disgust. Natal, October 25. Cetewayo is now the guest of Mr Osborne, the British Ee«identin Zululand, and is not coming, as was expeetf d, to this colony. ;

[Specials to the Press Association.]

London, October 24,

It is rumoured that the Marqms of Nor-' manby's term of office ai Governor of Victoria will be prolonged. . Messrs Chapm?.a *nd Hall encounce the publication of a History of Australia, of which Mrltusdeu is one of the autors.

Mr West^ate, writing^ the Pall Mai! Gazette, advocates a propoi'tioaate representation of the Colonies in the Imperial Cabinet.

London, October 25

The Globe questions the wisdom of the peremptory warning by the Secretary for the Colonies to General Maclver. The Pa.l Mall Gazette says that Lord Derby's action in the matter .commits England to the annexation of New Guinea. The St. James's Gazette thinks the cheapest course would be to permit Australia to make the annexation. The Standard sjys that General JMfsclver has forced the hand of the Government. The Morning Post and Daily News justify an£ defend Lord Derby's action, Lord Salisbury, in the National Eeview, advocates the State taking steps to abolish the rookeries now existing in London, and erecting proper houses for the occupation of the poor. London, October 26. Patrick Heley Hutchinson has been appointed torpedo lieuterant in the Victorian navy. , At the Fisheries Exhibition, New South Wales and Tasmania have been awarded an additional gold and silver medal. Count Batthyani has been killed in a duel in Hungary. Ten thousand Chinese troops have been assemb!' d in Canton, in expectation of a French attack.

The Irish Government has been warned that it wiiLbe impossible to restrain tfce Orangemen' if the proposed National League meetirig is allowed to be held in Ulster.

There is a revival of outrages in Ireland. Michael Davitt, at Wexford, stated that,the»li^gue hsd not the power he expected. "** ' ;

Londok, Oct. 23

The Cambiidgeshire Stakes at the JN"ewmarket Houghton Meeting resulted thus:—Bendigo, 1; Tonans, 2; M?dicus, 3.