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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 29, 3 February 1881, Page 2

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London, February 1. Consols remain at 99£, and New Zealand securities at last quotations, viz,, Five per cent 10-40 loan, 102 ; Five per cent loan, 107£ ; Four and a half per cent, 1879-1904 loan, 99£. Adelaide wheat ex warehouse, 50a ; Adelaide flour ex warehouse, 34 ; New Zealand wheat ex ship, 445. Australian tallow is unchanged. Arrived — Waimea, from the Bluff, sailed October 18th ; Waitangi, from Lyttdtton, sailed October 30th ; Loch Doon, from Auckland, sailed October 9. February 2. The House of Commons has been sitting for the last twenty-four hours on the Irish Coercion Bill. There have been continuous motions for adjournment by the Irish members, but all have been negatived. Scandalous scenes have occurred, and violent language has been used by the obstructors. The Speaker has frequently warned them that their action was verging on wilful obstruction, which could be punished by the House. John Bright made a speech in the course or which he characterised the conduct of the Irish members as a gross insult to the House and Government, and stated that the latter would shortly apply a remedy for such obstruction as was being pursued. The debate still proceeds.

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London, 18th January. There is a probability that obstruction in the House of Commons will soon be brought to an end. Professor Thorold Rogers, one of the Liberal members for Southward, has discovered among the old orders of the House one which dates back from the year 1600, which empowers the Speaker to "stay irrelevent speeches." It is likely that this will be used for the purpose of putting a, stop to the present protracted discussions. The Dutch settlers of South Africa have made an appeal to the Government and people of Holland, claiming their sympathy and protection. In the present relations with Great Britian, it ib considered very unlikely that the assistance sought will be granted. i It is reported that Mr. Josheph Cowen, proprietor of the Newcastle Chronicle, and , Liberal representative of Newcastle, meditates acting with Mr. Parnell in haranguing the monster meeting to be held in London in opposition to the application of the Government for coercive measures in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone has expressed sympathy with the loyal Boers, but regrets that it is impossible to grant them independence. j It ia stated that the Earl of Beaconsfiejd

is pressing upon the Conservative party the necessity of supporting some measure of Land Reform in Ireland, with a view to checkmating the designs of the Land League. The frozen butter by the Protos wa3 pronounced to be in tolerably good condition. The frozen meat was bought with avidity, as there was great scarcity of stock in Smithfield Market owing to the recent snowstorms. . January 24. Mr. Henry Taylor, late emigration agent in England on behalf of South Australia, sails by the Orient to deliver lectures through Australia, advocating the export of Australian food to England. A meeting will be held at the Mansion House next Fridaj' of merchants and others, to advocate the holding of a wool exhibition, in which Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, America, and all the great wool-producing countries shall be represented. Mr. Bradlaugh having again called the attention of the Government to the cruelty alleged to be practised upon tho Maoris arrested in the New Plymouth district, New Zealand, by keeping them in prison for several months without trial, Mr. Duff, Under-Sceretary, lui3 requested that the question should be postponed until the arrival of full information on the subject, which is expected to be received by the Marsh mail.