ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2409, 24 December 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[eEUTKE’s TELEQEAMB.3 LONDON, December 21. The Salvage CaseThe claim against the ship Pareora for salvage has been settled by the owners paying £2OOO to the owner of the tag which towed the vessel back to the Thames after she had slipped her cables in the Downs. The amount claimed was £SOOO. A Wheat Ship Wrecked. The ship Waipa, bound fram Lyttelton to London, is ashore at Dunkirk, on the Northern Coast of France The vessel is believed to bo seriously injured, and is now fall of water. December 22. The Markets. Consols have advanced to 992. Tho total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £11,250,000. The Bank rate of discount remains at 5 per cent.; market rate, si. New Zealand securities are unchanged at the following quotations—Five Per Cent. 10.40 Loan, 104; Fire Per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104. Four and a Half Per Cent. 1879-1904 loan, lOlf. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, remains at 565; New Zealand do, 525. Adelaide flour, ex store, 41s 6d. Australian tallow—Best beef, 39s 6d; best mutton, 44s 6d. A Delicate Agitator. Owing to ill health Mr, Parnell has been removed from Kilmainham Gaol to the Gaol at Armagh. The Other Side of the QuestionA largely attended meeting of landlords has been held at Dublin, at which resolutions were passed condemning the Land Act, and setting forth the intention of tho meeting to demand compensation from the State for losses incurred through the carrying out of the provisions of the law. ROME, December 22, Italy on Tunisian AffairsIn the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Mancini, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a statement to the effect that the Italian Government would not recognise the treaty concluded between the Bey of Tunis and France, and was carefully watching the action of the latter country in Tunis. England, Signor Mancini added, had tacitly accepted the Franco-Tnnisian treaty.