ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2019, 13 August 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[eeutee’s telegrams.] LONDON, August 10. The Markets. Consols at 98-g-. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 49s 6d. The market is quieter. Best beef tallow, 34s 6d ; best mutton, 36s 6d. The tallow market is firm. No. 1 Scotch pig iron f.o.b. in the Clyde, 52s 9d. Bank of Australasia. The Bank of Australasia pays a dividend of £2 10s per share. The Harvest. The price of wheat is declining, owing to finer weather, which is now prevailing throughout England. Harvest operations are progressing rapidly, and from present indications it is expected that the English crop will be below the average. Heavy shipments of wheat continue to arrive from America. August 11. Aquatic. Trickett has returned from Scotland, and is now at Putney. He is practising in a boat which ho brought from Australia. Foundering of a Pilgrim Vessel. News has been received that the steamer Jeddah, bound to Singapore with a thousand pilgrims from Jeddah, foundered during a heavy gala off Cape Guardafin. All on board perished except twenty-one. LONDON, August 12. The Foundering of the Jeddah. The steamer Jeddah, which foundered on the coast off Capo Guardafui, has boon got off and been towed safely into Aden. Governorship of the Fijis. Mr Dovccux, who was ActingGovernor at Fiji during the temporary absence of Sir Arthur Gordon, has been appointed to the permanent governorship of the colony. Railway Accidents.

Serious railway accidents occurred today on the Northern and Midland lines. The trains in both cases bent the rails and ran down embankments. Several passengers have been killed and many seriously wounded. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 11. The Turco-Greek Frontier. Mr Goschen, the British Ambassador, has declared to Abeddin Pasha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the Great Powers will not consent to any change in the Turko-Greek frontier as fixed by the Berlin Conference. CALCUTTA, August 11. The Afghan War.

News has been received from Cabul that General Boberts, with his force of 10,000 men, marched fifteen miles on Monday, and is pushing on as rapidly as possible towards Candahar. Bejoicings have taken place in the principal Afghan towns over Abdur Bahman’s accession to the Ameership. CALCUTTA, August 13. Afghan Affairs.

According to the latest news from Afghanistan, General Stewart arrived at Sherpur, near Cabul, yesterday, and arranged to have an interview with the new Ameer, Abdul Bahman, at an early date. After the same has been held, General Stewart, with the British troops remaining in the neighborhood of Cabul, will retire to Gundamuk,