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BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS- PER PRESS ASSOCIATON.) LON T DON, Feb. 2. Consols are quoted at 99£. New Zealand securities are unchanged. Australian and New Zealand wheat remains at last quotations, viz : Adelaide, ex warehouse, of).* ; New Zealand, ex ship, 445. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 345. Australian beef tallow, 35s 6d ; best mutton, 38s. The stock of tallow in London yesterday was 13,200 casks. The homeward Australian mails, via Brindisi, were delivered to-day. Feb. 3. Thomas Carlyle, the well-known author, is now alarmingly ill. His physicians hold out no hope of his recovery. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 3. In reply to representations made by the Ambassadors of the Powers, the Porte has declined to state beforehand the maximum concessions! which Turkey is prepared to make to Greece in Epirus and Thessa'Jy, but is willing to negotiate' in regard to demands put forward by Greece.
AUSTRALIA.
(RILQTER'S TELEGRAMS PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SYDNEY, Feb. 4. Hennessy's brandy, bulk, quarter-*, is quoted at lis Gd ; Raven's twist- tobacco, atlls4d. BRISBANE, Fkz. 4, Intelligence bas been received here that a white man lias been murdered by natives of Gilbert River, North Queensland. ADELAIDE, Feb. 4 Wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 4-]-d — market quiet ; town flour, £10 10s to £10 15s ; country brands, £9 os to £9 7s 6d. Freights to London — steamers, 45s per ton ; sailing vessels, 42s Gd. Freights to United Kingdom from Adelaide, 42s 6d to 45s ; ditto from out-ports, 45".
TELEGRAMS.
