ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2221, 8 April 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[EEUTEB'd TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, April 6. The MarketsConsols have advanced to 100 J. New Zealand securities are unchanged. Adelaide wheat has advanced Is per quarter, and to-day is quoted at 51s, ex warehouse. New Zealand wheat remains at 46s ex ship, and Adelaide flour at 34s ex warehouse. An Earthquake. News has been received that an earthquake of a terrible character has been experienced in tho island of Obio, in the ißgean Sea, off the coast of Smyrna, Asia Minor. The results have been most disastrous to life and property, the accounts to hand estimating that fully 500 persons have met with their deaths. Earl BeaconsfieldA bulletin issued this evening reports that Earl Beaconsfield is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. The Tunisian Dispute. It now transpires that the conflicts on the Tunisian Algerian frontier have not, as previously reported, occurred over a former difficulty between England and France as to the disputed right of an English subject to an estate at Enfidd, but have arisen in consequence of the action on the part of France towards the acquisition of Tunis. The steps which had been taken by the French Government caused much excitement throughout Italy, as they were thought to be directly opposed to Italian interests. The matter has formed the subject of diplomatic correspondence between the French and Italian Governments, and in reply to the latter's remonstrance the French Government has given friendly assurances as to its intentions in regard to Tunis.