ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2340, 3 October 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[ebutee’s telegrams.] LONDON, September 30. The Markets. Consols have fallen i, and are quoted to-day at 99. Now Zealand securities are without quotable change. Colonial breadstuffs have advanced Is; Adelaide wheat, ex store, 59a ; New Zealand wheat, ’ ex store, 595; Adelaide flour, ex store, 42s 6d; Australian tallow, best beef, has fallen to 39s 6d, and best mutton, to 43s per cwt. Galvanised iron is unchanged at £l7 10s; best Sydney copra has advanced to £ls 10s. At the wool sales to-day 9700 bales were offered. The market is steady, but the demand is not active. Bank Dividend. The Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, for the past halfyear, and carried forward £IOOO to the reserve fund. October 1. The French Treaty. The “ Times,” in a leading article today, in referring to the return of the British Commissioners from Paris, states that difficulties have arisen in the negotiations which have been proceeding between Prance and England, and adds that the proposal of the former to levy specific import duties on British cottons and woollen manufactures is virtually insuperable, and will preclude any understanding being arrived at. PARIS, September 30. The negotiations which have been proceeding in this city since the 19 th inst. between the representatives of England and France on the subject of the commercial relations of the two countries, have been temporarily suspended, and the British Commissioners are now returning to London, in order to confer with their Government as to their further course of action. CAPETOWN, September 30. The Boer Difficulty. Telegrams received to-day from Pretoria announce that the Transvaal Yolksraad has referred the Anglo-Boer convention to a select committee to decide upon its ratification or rejection, and that the Yolksraad has been adjourned until Monday hext, October 3rd. Further telegrams report that General Sir Evelyn Wood has, in view of the delay in the ratification of the Convention, been invested by the Imperial Government with full powers to act in the event of any emergency, and that the General has ordered active preparation on the part of the British troops in the Transvaal, in order to be prepared for any difficulty that may arise.