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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 159, 5 July 1880, Page 2

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; .':' '■- . ;v, ivY: r London, July. 2. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain .is % 650,000 quarters. Market , rate ,o£ discount '• f below, Bank rate. The -total stock of fallow in London ; on the Ist instant was 16,600 casks. In ; tta cricket match Australians.*;, eighteen of Newcastle- ori-Tyiie, the Australians in their first innings scored 222, Murdoch, leg heforejidcket, 117. -„..-- '"',"" T-\ V" . - ' July 3. Mrßradlaugh has taken his' seat in the House^of .Commons.': ' '■■■„'■■ r ' Colonel Sahdford who represents the Royal Commission to the Melbourne Ex bibition startsfor Melbourne on the 21st insfc. = .--, Consols, 98|. ' New. Zealand Securities— Eive per cent, 104£; ditto, 1889 loan, 104; Tour and a half per cent, 1879-1804 loan, 995. New; Zealand wheat, ex ship, 475; Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 47s 6d; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 365 ; Australian tallow, „ .best beef, 33s 6dj, best mutton, 355. The cricket match, Australians v. Eighteen " of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was resumed and concluded to-day. The Home team, being 105 behind^their : opponents, went in t for their BecomT innings, and making a good stand ;:,were; not disposed . of until their score had •'■ reac'Bed 202 runs. The Australians. then requiring 96 runs to make to win the match went in for their second innings,-' but want of time prevented sits completion, and when the Btumps were drawn they had scored 58 runs with the loss of four wickets. The match therefore wag drawn, the Australians requir- \ ing 38 runs to make, and baring 6 wickets to fall. : ' . : , ■.'■••■,' Constantinople, July 3. i The Turkish Government have determined to resist the decision of the European Conference, and preparations are being made to mobilize an army corps. ; , # # Calcutta, July 2. Authentic intelligence has been received that Ayoub Khan, the Governor of Herat, who for some time past has been supposed to be making warlike preparations to wrest Candahar from Shere All, the newly appointed ruler of that province, has now actually, left Herat and marched southwards with a considerable force to Eerrah, a place about 150 .miles from the city of Candahar. In consequence of this information a British column has been. despatched from Candahar to Girishka, on the road to Eerrah, to support Wali Mahommed, who commands the Can- . dahar tribes, and is preparing to resist the advance of Ayoub Khan. . ■■■ ' Pams, July 3. The Bill introduced by the French Government for, granting a plenary amnesty to the Communists, founded on a resolution passed in the Chamber of Deputies came under discussion id the Senate to-day. The measure, as it stood, was rejected by a small majority, but an amended Bill was subsequently passed granting an amnesty "to all Communists except those guilty of assassination or incendiarism.