(SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received Match 19, 0.45 a m.) SMALLPOX AT MADRAS. London, March 18. A severe attack of small-pox has broken out at Madras. A large number of cases are reported, and considerable alarm is felt at the spread of the disease, (beuteb’s teleorams.) (Received March 19, 0.55 a.m.) MONETARY and COMMERCIAL. London, March 17.. Consols remain at 102, and New Zealand securities as follows ; —Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 102 s-; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 104 ; 4J- per cent. 1879- 1904 loan, 100, ex div.; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100. The market rate of discount has fallen to 2f, and is now 4 below the Bank rate. Adelaide wheat, ex stoie, remains at 46s for new crop, and New Zealand ditto at 36s to 425. Adelaide dour, ex store, 30s. Australian tallow, average quality— Beef, 37s 6d ; mutton, 40s 6d. Melbourne, March 18. Sailed, this afternoon—Union steamship Tarawera, for the Bluff. London, March 18. The homeward mails per steamship Orient, via Suez and Brindisi, from Melbourne, February 8, were delivered here yesterday. "WEST AUSTRALIAN .LOAN. are invited by the West Australian Government for a loan of £1547000, bearing interest at "4 per cent. The minimum is fixed at 961-. Tenders close on Monday next. GERMANY AND THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. In the House of Commons last night, Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated, in reply to a question, that the Government did not intend to protest against the action of the German Go vernment in stationing a man-of-war in the South Seas during the labor season.
THE SOUDAN REBELLION.
