ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2415, 31 December 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[EEUTEE : B TELEGBAMB."! LONDON, December 27. The Markets.

Consols, 99-g-. Bank rate of discount is 5 per cent, and the market rate 41. New Zealand securities :—Five Per Cent. 10.40 Loan, 104; Five Per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104; Four-and-a-half Per Cent 1879-1904 Loan, 101-J. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 565; New Zealand ditto, 525; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 51s 6d; Australian tallow, best beef, 39s 6d ; best mutton, 445. Homeward Mails. The homeward mails per Orient steamship John Elder, which left Melbourne on November 16 th, were delivered via Brindisi yesterday. December 28. The Markets. Three per cent, consols have declined i, and are quoted to-day at 99J. New Zealand securities remain at yesterday's quotation. Adelaide and Zealand wheat acd Australian tallow are without quotable change. Scotch pig iron, No. 1, f.o.b. in Clyde, has fallen to 52s per ton. December 29. An Afghan Item. The " Daily News " to-day publishes a telegram from Afghanistan to the effect that the Ameer Abdul Rahman has expressed his intention of visiting India during the ensuing spring. Shipping. Arrived—Ship Selim, from Lyttelton. PARIS, December 29. Continued Resistance to Invaders. Telegrams to hand from Tunis report that desultory fighting continues between the insurgent Arab tribes and the French forces in the Principality. The rebels have suffered severe losses, and a large body has crossed the western border into Morocco, whither the French are pursuing them. BOMBAY, December 29. Highly Interesting. At Baroda, the capital of Guzerat, a semi-independent native state in Bombay Presidency, the installation of the Guicowar, the native ruler, took place to-day, in the presence of the British Resident.