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(Per Reuter's Agency.) CommercialLondon, Feb.,. 11.' The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,230,000 quarters. Australian tallow, best beef, 345.; best mutton, 375. 6d. Five percent. New Zealand 10-40 Loan, five per cent. 1889 Loan,. ioßj^; four and 7879-1904 Loan, 97. Best Scotch' pig
iron, No. x, f.o.b. in Clyde, 51s. 6d. Best Australian leather, nd. pet lb. A Fenian Plot to Destroy Windsor Oastle. The police have received information which leads to the belief|hat a -Fenian plot ’ is on foot to blow up Windsor Castle, and the return of Her Majesty to Windsor is consquently delayed. Troops for Natal. In the House of Commons Mr. Childers, replying to a question, said that the Government had recently made an offer to Sir George Colley of further strong: reinforcements for service against the Boers, and the offer had been accepted. Fresh bodies of troops would accordingly be sent to Natal without delay. Matched. The marriage of Baroness Burdett Coults with Mr. Ashmead Bartlett took place to-day. The Boers. Feb. 12. The latest intelligence from Natal announces that detachments of recently arrived reinforcements are rapidly proceeding from Durban to the Transvaal. The advanced guard has already sighted bodies of Boers to the southward of Newcastle in Natal, and skirmishes have taken place. The enemy is expected to offer a strong opposition to the advance of the British troops.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 2, Issue 268, 14 February 1881, Page 2
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