MASSACRE OF 1000 CHINESE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 139, 13 June 1881, Page 2

MASSACRE OF 1000 CHINESE.

London, June 10. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,990*000 quarters. Best sides Australian leather are quoted at ll}d At the wool sale to-day 9100 bales were catalogued. The market was firm. June 11. Consols remain at 100 J. New Zealand 5 per cent 1889 loan 105; New Zealand 5 per cent 10-40 loan 105; New Zealand 4J per cent 1879-1904 loan 103. Adelaide wheat cr warehouse 48s; New Zealand wheat 45a 6d Adelaide flour ex warehouse 33? 6.1. Australian tallow has declined 6d per cwt and is quoted to-day at 34s 6d for best be^f, and 37s for best mutton. At the wool sale to-day 8900 bales were offered. A firm demand was again experienced. Fifty rioters were arrested during the recent disturbances in Cork and have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The police and miliiary in Ireland are actively engaged in suppressing all meetings of the Land League. At five different places to-day meetings were prohibited and the people dispersed. Owing to the increased disorder in Ireland large reinforcements of troops are being sent there, especially to augment the forces in the southern districts. News has been received from Chili that one thousand Chinese have been massacred by the negro inhabitants of Santa Rosa. Telegrams are to hand from New York reporting that at an interview held with O 'Donovan Roasa he denied that the Fenians were guilty of complicity in the recent attempt to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall, but he stated that he was aware that in December last explosives were placed in the hold of 11. M.5. Dotterel which was destroyed by an explosion in the Straitß of Magellan on the 26th April.