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{Per Reuter's Agency.) The Markets. London, Aug. 16. Three per cent.. Consols have declined a • J, and are now'quoted at 97§. New Zea land securities were unchanged at last quotations, viz., Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan, 1031; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 103; Four and a-lialf per Cent'. Loan, 1879-1904, 99L New Zealand wheat, ex ship, is quoted at 4Gs., being a decline of • G Is. Adelaide wheat and flour have;, also fallen, the present prices, ex warehouse, being, wheat 475. 6d. and flour 353. 6d. Australian tallow remains firm, at 345. 6d. for beef, and 365. 6d. for best mutton. v; ‘ Not Yet. '‘ No arrangements has yet been come to " for a match between the Australian 1 ' cricketers and an All England Eleven. Abdul Rahman Sound.-r--y.K • •r> Aug. 17. G In the House of Commons to-day, the Marquis of Harrington, Secretary of State for India, in reply to a question, stated that he disbelieved the report of an entente cordiale existing between Abdul Rahman and Ayouh Khan. Her Last Exit. Obituary—Madame Neilson, actress. U > General Melikoff. * St. Petersburg, Aug. 15. General Melikoff ha 3 been appointed Minister of the Interior. fl “ Extension of Time.” Constantinople, Aug. 17. Owing to the Great Powers not consent- d ing to any change in the Turko-Greek frontier as fixed by the Berlin Conference;' Turkey" has asked for twehty-fdiif -days’, extension of time to further j consider the question as regards the settlement of the rectification of the frontier. ; ( \ Fighting in Afghanistan. >/ Calcutta, Aug. 17, Intelligence has been received from Afghanistan that a large body of Pathesis attacked the British garrison at Kach madan, but were repulsed. The British. • . pursued and inflicted sevele loss upon . them. ...
