Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 549, 18 October 1881, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

( Rhutnn's Tku.grams.) (Special to tiii. Mail.; THE MARKETS. London, October 14, Consols have advanced to 99. New Zealand 5 per cents have suffered a decline ,_)f i}, and are to-day quoted at IOOf for the 10-40 Loan;and 103$ for the 1889 Loan. The 4} per cents, 1879-1904, remain at 98Y Tho market for Colonial breadstuffs is unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 59s ; New Zealand do, 545; Adelaide flour, ex stoio, 425. The total quantity of wheat afloat for tbe United Kingdom is 1,960,000 quarters. Australian tallow, best beef, 41s Gd ; best mutton, 455. A fair demand exists for most descriptions of hides. TIII3 I LUSH _AG IT ATION. The stringent measures which have been adepted by the Government in Ireland continue without abatement. Mr Dillon, M.P. for Tippcrary, released from custody in August, and Heffernan, another prominent agitator, who was also recently released, have both been re-arrested. O'Brien, the editor of United Ireland, the organ of the League, bas been arrested.

Telegrams received to-day from America state that the Irish agitators in that country are maddened at the action of tho Irish Executive. TERRIBLE STORM. A storm which raged yesterday on the English const destroyed £50,000 worth of property and caused the death of fully two hundred Northumberland fishermen. THE AMERICAN SENATE. Washington, October 14. At a meeting of the Senate to day ( Mr Davis, a neutral member, was elected President, in place of Mr Bayard, Democrat, who was recently elected temporarily to that position.