LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 234, 2 October 1880, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, Sept. 30. News has been received from the Cape that the Basutos again attacked the station at Mohales, but were repulsed by the Cape Mounted Rifles. The relieving force has arrived at Basuto • land from Natal. Consols are unchanged at 97f . New ' Zealand securities remain at last quotations. The total reserve of notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £16,250,000, being half a million less than last week. October 1. The report received yesterday that the Albanians had set fire to Dulcigno is now proved to have been devoid of foundation. The latest news to hand from the combined fleet is that Admiral Seymour has decided to leave Ragusa on Monday, and to proceed south to the Gulf of Cattaro, which is deemed a safer place of anchorage. Nothing definite has yet been decided as to when the fleet will proceed to Dulcigno. At a Cabinet Council held yesterday, Earl Granville — the Foreign Secretary — informed his colleagues that he . had had an interview, with Musurus Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, regarding the difficulties be tween Turkey and the Powers, and he (Lord Granville) was able to state that the Porte was receding from the position it had taken up, and- was now endeavoring to dissuade the Albanians from offering : resistance to the cession of Dulcigno to Montenegro. New Zealand wheat has advanced-sixpence per quarter, and to-day's quotations are, Adelaide ex warehouse 46a- 6d ; New Zealand ex ship 428 6d. Adelaide flour ex warehouse ia quoted at 32b 6d. New York, October 1. There is considerable excitement throughout America over the approaching Presidential election, and speeches are being delivered by prominent leaders of both parties. Both General Grant and Mr Erarts, the Secretary of State, have delivered speeches in favor of the candidate of their respective parties. Constantinople, September 30. The Ambassadors of the Great Powers have signed a protocol declaring the solidity of their Governments in regard to the strict execution of the Treaty of Berlin, and repudiating the idea that they have any desire in the direction of aggrandisement of territory. , , , October I.] The Porte to-day ha«. addressed, a request to the P.owers through * their . Ambassadors here, asking that it may be allowed to delay until Monday, when it promises that definite steps shall' be taken' to bring about the solution of. the Montenegrin difficulty. .. v