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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 923, 23 May 1878, Page 2

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X-iONDON,' May Is, 2?he money market is steady,

Consols from 96 to 90£. Tlioro is a great speculation mid activity on the Siock Exchange. The market fnAu^&lian: securities is remarkably firm. IS ew Zealand 5 per cent, consols dated now, are c(uoteJ ; the New Zealand 4£ per cents — February/- August, and now, are also quoted. t >>Thb wool sales haye > exhibited con sidprable. weakness as they progress. The langour led to considerable withdrawals. Prices are an average decline of Id. The fall is most strongly marked m lespect to washed and greasy cross-bveds. • The corn market is weak, with a downward tendency. The prospect of the wheat harvest at hpme is favorable. , , LONDON, May 20. After a long and animated debate m the House of Commons, Lord Hartington's motion Was adjourned till to-morrow. In the House of Lords, Viscount Be'acooSfield declined, under present circumstances,. to indicate .the policy of the Government. At the Preston riot the military interfered, and succeeded m dispersing the mob without using* armsCONSTANTINOPLE, May 20. :\ The Russian Ambassador here and General Todleben both assure the Ottoman Government that the movements of the Russian troops towards Constantinople have no hostile intention. LONDON, May 21. Ihe Lancashire operatives refuse a settlement of the dispute. The Prince and , Princess cf Wales visited the Sydney section of of the Pai*is Exhibition, and complimented that colony on its exhibits and the tastefnl manner of arranging them. The Canadians ars offering military services m large numbers to the British Government. £ 3,000 was subscribed for sufferers by the loss of H.M.S.. Eurydice. In fifteen elections m France, fourteen Republicans were elected. Jerome Napoleon has written a remarkablo paper, asserting that the isolation of France m 1870 was caused by the clerical party preventing the Emperor from evacuating Rome earlier, when Italy and Austiij would have assisted France. The Suez mail per Albion arrived at the bl"ff.