ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2253, 18 May 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

[BBUTEE’3 TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, May 16. ShippingArrived—Ship Waimato, from Lyttelton. Home Quotations. Consols remain at 102 b. New Zealand 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 104 J ; New Zealand 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 104, ex div. ; New Zealand 4i per cent., 18791904 loan, lOli. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 47s ; New Zealand wheat, 44s ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 335. Australian tallow—Beat heef, 34s 6d ; heat mutton, 3Ga, Wool in Request. At the wool sales to-day, 10,000 halos were offered, and there was a good demand. Irish Land BillIn tho House of Commons this evening, consideration of the Irish Land Bill was resumed. In the course of the dehate the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone made a speech in which he said the Government attached its fortunes to the Bill, and would strenuously oppose any amendments which might he proposed affecting tho principles of the measure as introduced. CONSTANTINOPLE. May 16. Port(e) Manteau. Tho Ambassadors of the Powers have under consideration the conditions now placed by the Porte upon tho proposed transfer of territory in Thessaly and Epirns to Greece. After deliberation, tho Amb assadora unanimously decided to reject tho stipulations of the Porte, and the latter has been urged to withdraw them. ST. PETERSBURG, May 16. MinisterialGeneral Ignatieff has been appointed Russian Minister of the Interior in place of General Loris Melikoff, resigned.