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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1476, 6 September 1883, Page 2

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Reiser's Telegrams. . BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH^COPYRIGHT. LONDON, September. 4. . Received September 6, 1 a.m,~ Consols remain at 100|, and New Zealand securities'as• follows':—s per cent. 10-40 loan, 106J; 5 per cent. 1880 loan. 1061; 4} per cent. 1879'1904 loan, 100| j 4'per cent, insoribed stock, 100 J. The market rate of discount has further fallen |,'and' is now 3fi bank rate, 4 per cent, The breadstuff's and tallow "markets are without quotable change. At to-day's wool sale, 11,900 bales were offered. The market is steady, but the demand is not active. September-6. The death is announced of Mr Charles Morgan Norwood, who has represented the Hull constituency in the House .of Commons since 1865, aged 58. ; Prince Albert-Victor)- the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, was invested

yeaterday - .with the Order of the Garter. , Telegrams have been received herej reporting.that twovErenoh war vessel?; have left Noumea for the New Hebrides' gcowpwith instructions to protect the interests of. the French Company trading in those islands, ' LONDON, September $. •'Received September .6, I p.m',-r----;Much anxiety prevails in England in Consequence of threatened rupture between Prance and China. . CAPETOWN, /,..; September 2. Intelligence' to hand from Zululand 'is that Cetwayo, with a strong force, is still in the reserved territory, and has/summoned the Usutus to his aid, and is'adopting a defiant attitude iowardsithe British" residents in Zululand.. ; '. ; . 'MELBOURNE, Thursday. At the sale of stud sheep yesterday ■one Of Mr John Cumming's four-tooth r^ms.by Lustre was sold for three thousand one hundred and fifty guineas to Mr P, F. Curaming. ' '• ■ September 5, • Arrived, this afternoon Union steamship Waihora, from the Bluff.