LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 206, 1 September 1879, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, August 28. Three per cent Consols 97*. The total reserve of notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £21,250,000. At the wool sales to-day 72,000 bales were catalogued. The market showed a downward tendency. There was a fair attendance and prices averaged Id peo lb lower for inferior and scoured. A loan of £100,000 for Western Australia has been applied for. The allotments averaged 97J. At the wool sales to-day there was slow enquiry for all kinds. The average prices rnled Id lower, while for inferior and scoured there was a decline of l-'-d to 2d. 12,917 bales were withdrawn. London, August 29. The latest Cape news reports that Clarke's column accompanied Sir Garnet Wolseley to Ulundi, and that on the 12th August Bossell'a column bad reached Enhlangam, which they had fortified for winter quarters. This post is a litt'e south of the Black TTmvalosi river, and it is stated the Cetewayo is in the vicinity. At present affairs are quiet, most of the Zulus having dispersed to their homes. Negotiations are being continued with some of the principal chiefs, who have promised to give in their submission. Sir Rowland Hill was buried in Westminster Abbey. Vienna, August 29. Count Andrassy has recommended the Emperor 10 appoint the present AustroHungarian ambassador to the King of Italy as his successor in the Foreign office. Austrian troops will occupy the town of Novi Banzar on the southern frontier of Servia in the Bth Sept. in accordance with the terms of the Berlin Convention. _. „ , . New York, August 2. ine Cuban insurrection has now been eneirely suppressed and only a few small bands of insurgents are at large. The other troops are pursuing.