ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2263, 4 July 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

[rettter’B telegrams.] LONDON, July 1. On the RiseConsols have risen and are quoted to-day at 100$. New Zealand 5 por cent. 10-40 loan, 105 ; Now Zealand 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 105 ; Now Zealand 4$ per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 103. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has fallen to 48s 6d; New Zealand wheat, unchanged, at 475, ex ship ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 345. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,060,000 quarters. Australian tallow, best beef, per cwt., 36s ; best mutton, 38s. Tho total stock of tallow this day is 12,400 casks. Best Scotch pig iron, No. 1, f.o.b. in Clyde, per ton, 47s 6d. The wool sales closed to-day, a firm tone being maintained to tho conclusion. Tho total quantity sold during the series was 310,000 bales, the quantity held over for the next sales being 40,000 hales. WASHINGTON, July 1. A Shootist. A daring attempt was made to-day at tho Railway station upon the life of tho President, by Charles Gintean, attorney, of Chicago, an unsuccessful office-hunter, As Mr Garfield was on the point of leaving by train for tho north, Gintean fired at him with a revolver. The shots took effect, and wounded the President in the arm and hip. He was at once conveyed to tho White House for medical attendance. The surgeons report that the wounds are not necessarily fatal, but that his condition is critical, in consequence of internal hemorrhage having in. Gintean was arrested at the station before he could escape. Great excitement has been caused in the city and throughout the States by the occurrence, and much anxiety is manifested at the President’s state.