THE LATEST. London Markets. London, September 27.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1598, 30 September 1882, Page 2

THE LATEST. London Markets. London, September 27.

Consols have declined £ to 100V. New Zealand securities are unchanged at the following quotations: —s per cent. 10-40 loan, 105^, ex diw; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 106 i; 4A per cent. 1879 - 1904 loan, 100^. Colonial breadstuff's still continue very dull. Adelaide" wheat has declined one shilling to 465, ex warehouse, and Adelaide flour has also declined one shilling to 83s. Australian tallow is quiet at 44s 6d for best beef, and 46s for best mutton. The tone of to-day's wool auction was steady, but the demand was not active. The catalogue consisted of 11,100 bales.

The pension list of the United States will shortly reach the sum of 50,000,000d0l a year. Dr Bjellesheim, of Cologne, is engaged on a History of the Catholic Church in Scotland after the Reformation. The sale of the art treasures removed from Hamilton Palace was concluded on July 20th. The collections which the Duke of Hamilton has brought to the hammer, including the Beckford library, realised upwards of £428,000. The Sydney Echo learns that a short time ago Mrs J. R. Campbell, formerly a resident of Coonamble, distinguished herself by a deed of admirable bravery. Mrs Campbell was a passenger in a steamer from Hongkong to one of the northern ports of Queensland, and one day a little boy about four years of age, to whom the lady was much attached, fell overboard, the accident occuring through a sudden lurch of the vessel. With the exception of Mrs Campbell and the man at the wheel, all the passengers and crew were at dinner. Without waiting for a lifeboy or divesting herself of any clothing, and simply saying to the man at .the wheel, "Don't tell the child's mother," Mrs Campbell plunged, into the water, swam t# the boyj and held him up till both were, rescued, the steamer haying been promptly, stopped and a boat lowered. (^Neither the lady nor the boy was;much! the worse for > the immersion, 1 and* z\thoughtful* passenger I ha-vingdistracted'the' mbttie^sjajlijgtitioii until, the'child ipeas, sye,^^e%aggnMJungi. accidents wjs' »voided.>;^y;^r"' s „f ' X