HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 6726, 7 October 1885, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [ReUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON. October 5. (Received October 6, 1886, at 1016 p.m.) Consols are firm at 99g. a! %i In New Zealand securities' there are no quotable alterations. The Bank rate is 2 per cent, and the market rate Is. Colonial breadstuffs and tallow are unaltered. . ... THE RELIEF OF~KASSALA. SUAKIN, October 5. (Received October 7,1886, at 0 60 p.m.) Adviceß are to hand from the officer who is directing the operations of the Abyssinian bands against the Arabs between Massowah and Kassala. He .reports that he has fought an engagement with a large force of Hadendowahs, and defeated the enemy, who Buffered considerable loss in killed and wounded. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, October 6. (Received October 7,1885, at 12.30 p.m.) The latest returns of the elections give the number of Conservative deputies as 163, and of Republicans as 140. The number of ballotages for the Electoral College of the Senate is very large, being fully 200.) THE WOOL MARKET. LONDON, October 6. : (Reooived October 7, 1886, at 2 p.m.) The next series of wool auctions commence on November 17, and not on January 24 as previously announced. [* Argus ' Special to Press Association.] LONDON, October 6. (Received Ootober 7,1885, at 1 86 a.m.) Mr Parnell, speaking at Wicklow, stated that the loyalty of Irishmen in the colonies showed how safe it would be to concede selfgovernment to Ireland. The following is the result of the French elections:—The number of Royalists returned is 150; followers of M. Jules Eerry (ex Premier), 230; Radicals, 150; Bonapartista, 60. Tho following members of the present Ministry have been defeated:—M. Allain Targe, Minister of the Interior; M. Goblet, Minister of Public Instruction ; M. Herve Mangon, Minister of Commerce; and M. Pierre Legrand, Minister of Agriculture. M. De% r es, who held office, as Minister of Justice in M. Duclerg's Ministry, and M. Maurice Rouvier, who held the portfolio of Commerce in M. Ferry's Ministry, have also been rejected. The ballots for the Senate include M. Brissen (the present Premier), M. De Broglie, M. Clemenceau, and M. Sadi Carnot (Minister of Works in the present Ministry.) (Reoeived Ootober 7,1885, at 12.50 p.m.) An inquiry has been held into thecircumstances attending the collision which took place on September 10, in the Channel, between E. T. Gourland's steamer Idle Wild, 510 tons, belonging to Sunderland, and the barque Loch Fergus, 856 tons, owned by James Sprout, of Liverpool. At the time of the collision the barque was bound from London to Sydney, and in consequence of the damage sustained, had to put back. The Court held that the captain of the Idle Wild was responsible for the collision. The Queen has given permission to the Victorian Yacht Club to assume the title of "Royal."