New Zealaud Shipping Company's shares are quoted at £3 ; the" Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's at £8; and the Union Steam Ship Company's at £13. New Zealand meat, prime quality, -Id per lb. Leather, fld to ft .HI per lb. February 6. (Received February 7. at 5.40 p.m.) All Australian wheat cargo has been sold for the Continent at 38s 3M. An ofi; coast cargo has beon sold at 3Ss 7-M. THE NATIVE FOOTBALLERS. The Maori football team won their match against the Blackheath Club by two goals and three tries to a goal scored by Black heath. The Maoris return by the Oroya. COLONIAL BISHOPS. Afc a farewell service at St. Gabriel's Church, Pimlico, Dr Kenhion, Bishop of Adelaide, deprecated the ungenerous criti cism which had been passed ou colonial bishops compelled by the state of their health or age to resign their Sees. THE CONFESSION OF FAITH. February 7. (Pieceived February S. at 1.40 a.m.) The Edinburgh I'ree Church Presbytery by a majority of live agreed to transmit Dr Blackie's overture asking* the General Assembly to modify the formula for sub scription to the Confession of Faith. LOED ONSLOW. Lord Onslow has been presented with an address by the people of Guildford in re cognition of his services to this town. EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria in a letter to Count TaaFe, Minister of the Interior, thanks the people for their sym pathy on the occasion oE his bereavement. He announces that he will devote his life to the welfare of the empire. THE TASMANIAN LOAN. The Tasmanian Railway Company threaten to oppose the Tasmanian loan obtaining a quotation on the Stock Exchange unless the Government arrange a satisfactory working agreement. M. FLOQUET AND GENERAL BOULAN GER. Paeis, February 7 (Eeceived February 8, at 1.40 a.m.) It is stated that M. Floquet, the French Premier, desired to arrest General Boulanger. M. Freycinet opposed him, and declared that such a step would provoke a bloody revolu tion. M. Floquet has- consequently aban doned the idea. THE FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER, A colonel of tho 90th Regiment has de nounced Germany as an uncivilised nation for refusing a French army suigeon to cross the frontier to visit his dying mother. The press justify the colonel in writing so strongly. EIOTS IN CHINA. Hongkong, February 6. 