ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2262, 2 July 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[beuter’s telegrams.] LONDON, June 30. The Markets. Consols remain at 100 J. The Bank rate of discount remains at 2i per cent., and the market rate at If per cent. New Zealand securities are unchanged as follows ;—Five per cent. 10-40 and Five per cent. 1889 Loans, each 105 ; Four and a half per cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 103. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 50s; New Zealand, ex ship, 47s ; Adelaide flour, ox warehouse, 345; Australian beef tallow, best, 35s Gd; best mutton, 37s 6d. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £16,000,000. Best Scotch pig iron. No. 1, free on board in Clyde, 47s 6d. Rise in the Price of Wool. At the wool auction to-day 8300 bales wore offered. The firm tone of the market was again maintained. Prices generally for greasy wools are now id to Id higher than prices at the close of the last sales. The total number of bales withdrawn from sale since the commencement of the present series is 17,000. The next series will open on the 23rd of August. Arrivals to date for the next auctions amount to 290,000 bales. The total probable quantity to be offered, including that to he held over from present sales, is 400,000 hales. PARIS, June 24. Hostilities in Tunis. Telegrams are to hand from Tunis announcing that hostilities have occurred at Sfax, & seaport town on the Tunisian coast, between a detachment of French troops and the Arab tribes resident there The troops had been despatched to quell the rising of the tribes, which recently broke out in the Sfax district, and on their landing at the port they were fired upon by the Arabs, who had gathered in force to oppose their debarkation. The troops returned the fire, which was kept up for sometime, hut the Arabs were finally driven hack. Several on both sides were wounded, including the French Consul, who was landing with the troops.