LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 143, 17 June 1881, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, June 16. Tenders for the Otago Harbor Works loan of £100,000 were opened to-day. The total amount offered was found to be over £200,000. Tenders at £105 Is and upwards will receive allotment in full. In the House of Commons to-day a motion confirming (he principle of local option in connection with the licensing laws was, after a lengthy debate, carried on a division, by a majority of 42. Consols are unchanged at 100$. New Zealand five per cent 10-40 loan 105 ; New Zaaland five per cent 1889 loan 105 ; New Zealand four and a half per cent loan 103. Adelaide wheat ex warehouse 345 ; New Zealand wheat tx warehouse 45s Gd ; Adelaide flour ex warehouse 345. Australian tallow, best beef 34s 6d; best mutton 36i Gd. At the wool Bales to-day 10,000 bales were catalogued. A firmer demand wat experienced. Prices for greasy wool are about £d higher than at last sales. Greasy croaabreds and coarse wools rule about the same prices as at last saleß. In the House of Commons to day a Bill providiug for closing public housea in Wales on Sundays was read the third time and pasaed. June 16. The Ascot Gold Cup was run to-day and resulted aa follows: Robert the Devil 1, Petroleum 2, Exeter 3. Capetown, June 15. Telegrams are to band reporting that the Baautos have paid the fine which was levied upon them by the Cape Government in accordance with the terms of peace agreed to in April last. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ju&6 15. The Porte baa issued a circular to the Powers notifying that they will not recognise the French protection of Tunisians residing in Turkish territory and under Ottoman rule. Nkav York, June 15. In nearly all the American wheat growing districts the wheat ctops this season are very backward. INTERCOLONIAL. Melbourne, Thursday. At the conference of joint Committees of the Council and Assembly to-d»y Mr Ramsay's proposals for a possible compromise on the Reform quostion were agreed to, and a Bill embodying the same was introduced in the Legislative Assembly to-night. Arrived—To Anau, from the Bluff, this afternoon. Friday. The Reform Bill framed on the basis of the proposals made by Mr Ramsay and adopted by the Conference of Joint Committecß yesterday, was passed through the Assembly last evening and forthwith transmitted to the Legislative Council, where it was also carried through all its stages without discussion. Great satisfaction is expressed on all sides at the compromise which has been effected between the two Houses. Sydney, Thursday. Small pox is increasing in the city, two fresh cases of the disease having been reported to-day. Rigorous measures have been adopted to arrest the disease, and every precaution has been taken to prevent the spread of infection. Great alarm continues to be felt in the city generally. Sailed this afternoon— Pacific Mail steamer City of New York, for San Francisco via Auckland.