ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2024, 19 August 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

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[reuter’s TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, August 17, American Harvest-

The American wheat harvest prospects are favorable, and the yield is estimated at 500,000,000 bushels. Wool Sales

The third series of wool auctions opened to-day. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers 6900 bales were offered, these being inferior and faulty wools of all kinds. The tone of the bidding was hesitating. The auction closes on October Ist. Indian Finance.

In the House of Commons the Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India, in submitting the Indian Budget, said that an increase of taxation was proposed of £18,000,000. He also mentioned that no definite proposal had yet been made by the British Government to render any aid until such time as hostilities were suspended. The Price of WoolThe wool sales opened with prices at from a halfpenny to a penny lower than last sales. August 18. Mr Dillon ReprovedIn the House of Commons to-day, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, denounced the wickedness and cowardice shown by Mr Dillon in his seditious speech at Kildare, but said the Government had no intention of prosecuting him. A Hoax. A report was current to-day that two barrels of gunpowder had been found in the railway tunnel under the Cork barracks, but an inquiry proved the whole thing to he a hoax. PARIS, August 18. The French Crop.

It is expected that the French crop this year will be an average one. CALCUTTA, August 18. The Afghan War-

Further information to hand states that Ayoab Khan is now engaged bombarding Candahar, and that tho British forces are acting on tho defensive.

News comes to hand that the citadel at Candahar is invested on three sides by Ayonb Khan’s army. General Stewart reports that ho has reached Gundamuk with the British force which was left at Gabnl after General Roberts’ departure

for Candahar, and the evacuation of Cabul is now completed.