CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1959, 8 April 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

—*==-, [BY ELECTR'C TELEGRAPH—OOPYRIQHtJ Renter's TptF.GKA.jia. The market rate of discount is maltered at 3 per cent. Consols, %\. New Zealand securities—s per cent. .1040 loan JOJi; 4i per cent, 1879-1904 loan, 101; 4 per pent inscribed stock, QBJ. Colonial wheatj ex store, 35s Gd; New Zealand wheat, ex store, 28s to 345, Tallow and hides are without change. Bombay. April 7 The Jlarl of Dufferin gave a banquet yesterday at Rawul Piudi in honor of the Ameer of Afghanistan. The Ameer made a speech, in which lie wished prosperity to Great Britain, and referred to the Queen's army as ever victorious, London, April 7. The City of Dublin is very generally decorated in view of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland.

The Commission of Inquiry which has been sitting for some time to adjudicate upon the claims of German ■settlers to land in the .Fiji Islands has concluded its labors, and the Commissioners' are now preparing reports. The members of the Commission are said to be in accord on the question, duly a slight divergence occurring in; their finding.

The Times this morning announces that peace has been concluded between France and China. It is stated that although the terms of peace are partly based upon the treaty concluded by Captain Fournier at Tientsin in May last, no indemnity will be clajined by France, as was, the case in that compact.

MsMOtip'E, April 8. The manager of the National Mortgage Agency Company of New Zealand reports on the local grain market as follows : Shipping wheat rather weaker, 3s 8d to 3s 9d ; malting barley, neglected, 3s 9d to 4s fid; New Zealand oats, feed, 2s 8d to 3s; milling, 3s to 3s Id; ditto, under bond, 2s 2d to 2s 4d; ryegrass, quiet, 3s Gd to 4s 3d; cocksfoot, rather weaker, 4s to 4s 2d. •