LATEST EUROPEAN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 561, 29 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(Rrutek's Telegrams.)

(Special to the Mail.;

London, Nov. 26

Consols have risen to 100f. There are no further changes to report in the money market or in Colonial breadstuffs or tallow.

At the wool auction to-day 7600 bales were offered, and a firm and active demand was experienced. As compared with rates ruling at the close of the last sales, prices for fleece are now fully l£d higher, scoured is about Id, and greasy crossbreds are -£d to Id higher.

The right boa the Marquis Hartington, Sec. of State for India, addressed a crowded meeting at Blackburn, Lancashire, this evening. In the course of his speech he alluded at length to the present state of affairs in Ireland. He regretted that the situation in which the country was, caused the utmost anxiety, and was calculated to inspire tho greatest disappointment and dissatisfaction. Agrarian outrages wore alarmingly rife and the exercise of the rights of propeity was fraught with difficulty and danger. His Lordship added that the situation was receiving the earnest attention of Government, who would continue to act with unswerving firmness and inexhaustible

patience

Tiir-i Barque Pampero, 588 tons bound from Liverpool to Port Chalmers, experienced i severe pile off the English coast, during which she was dismasted. She Ins been towed into Penzance for repair.*.

Owing to tlje." continued increase of business brougVt&efore'the Land Courts, three addition 1 dfotniniesioriers have been appointed to deal with cases under the sai.l Act.

St. Petersburg, Nov. 20

An attempt on the life of General Ignatief, Minister of the Interior, tvaa made in this city-to-day, by a youth who fired at the general with a revolver. He was at once arrested, and has since confessed that he was instigated to commit the attempted crime.

Constantinople, Nov. 2G

Negotiations are now proceeding hetween the Russian Ambassador and tho Ottoman Financial Commission with a view to arrive at an amicable arrangement regarding the payment of the war indemnity due by Turkey to Russia.

Vienna, Nov. 2G

The decision of the Government to place Bosnia under the Austrian system of military service has■caused great discontent amongst the Bosnians, especially on the part of those resident in the district of Oattaro, on the Montenegrin frontier. The inhabitants of that district have risen in arms against the Austrian authorities, and severe lighting has already taken place between the insurgents and Austrian troops despatched to Oattaro.