LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3106, 11 June 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

June 8. The Otago harbor works loan of £100,000 was placed in the market today. June 9. At the wool sale to-day 11,400 bales were offered, and prices Bhowed a hardening tendency. Nine thousand bales have been withdrawn from sale since the opening. In the House of Commons to-day a resolution was agreed to on a division setting forth that any fresh commercial treaty with the French Government would be unsatisfactory unless it provided for a reduction of the import duties levied by France. News has been received to-day from Ireland reporting that disturbances in the neighborhoods of Cork have been re*

newed. Further riots have occurred between the police and the peasantry, and general disorder prevails in the district. Telegrams have been received from Quebec, Canada, announcing that a most destructive fire has occurred in that city. It broke out in. a thickly populated part, and spread with great rapidity to several blocks of bouses, all efforts to allay its progress being for some time without avail. The conflagration raged for several hours with great severiiy, but it was finally extinguished. It is estimated that fully one thousand houses have been completely destroyed. It is not yet known whether any loss of life has occurred. June 10. News has been received from Liverpool of a dastardly attempt to destroy the Town Hall in that city. An explosion occurred last night in the building, and caused some destruction in its neighborhood, but the evident attempt to blow up the hall was unsuccessful. It is supposed tbat dynamite was the explosive material used, and it is believed that it was laid by Fenian 9. The police have already arrested two armed AmericanIrishmen on suspicion of being concerned in the outrage.