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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 163, 11 July 1881, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

LbsboN, July 8, Consols are unchanged at ]to£. New Zealand 5 per cent 10-40 loan. 105J; New Zealand 5 per cent 18S9 lean, 105} New 7a aland 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 103. New Zealand wheat, ex werehonee, 495; New Zealand wheat, ex ship, 48.-; Adelaide nouY, ex warehouse, 345. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain at thia date ia 1,940,000 quarters. Australian tallow, beet beef, 35s 6d; beat mutton, 375. In the Honse of Commons to-day the consideration of the Irish Lied Bill in Committee waa prcc;ede*l with, and further progress was made with tte measure. Clause 12 was, after a discussio-i, postponed, but clauses 13 to 24 were finally passed without amendment. A re action has set in ia the sugar market and prices are now experiencing a decidedly downward tendency. July 9. A grand review of Volunteers will be held before the Queen at Windsor next month. It is expected that fully 56,000 men will be under arm 3 on the occasion. Pabis, July 8. The International Monetary Conference, which opened its sittings here on the 19th April last and ha? sat on varioua occasions Bince that date, has now broken up without any definite decision beiog arrived at The Conference will, however, meet again in April next jear, and in the meantime the various Governments will be requested to open diplomatic correspondence on the question for the consideration of which the Con ference assembled. Talfgrams are to hand from Tunis announcing that the bombardment of Sfax by the French war vessels has resulted in the partial destruction of tbe town. The Arabs are, howeter, still gathered in forca io the neighborhood and continue to show a determination to resist the French authority, The rebellious feeling, moreover, is reported to bespreading throughout the Kairwan district. Romb, July 8. It ia announced tbat the English financial houses of Baring Brothers and Co, and J. Hambro and Co, have contracted with the Italian Government for a new loan, the amount of winch haa not, however, yet transpired. It will be issued next week, and upon conditions which will obviate the present monetary stringency now felt in Italy. Washington, July 9. The latest bulletin issued to-day reports that President Garfield Continues to make steady prcgreis towards recovery.