LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 207, 31 August 1881, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, August 29. Arrived — Sbip3 Glenlora from Lyttelton sailed May 16, and Loch Dee from Auckland, sailed May 24 The homeward Australian and New Zealand mails via Suez and Brindisi which left Melbourne on the 20th July were delivered to-day.-

Consols have advance! £ to 99g. New Zealand securities are firm at last quotations.

Adelaide whsat ex warehouse has advanced to 503 and N,>w Zealand wheat ex ship to 68s. Adelaide flour ex warehouse is quoted at 42g, being an advance of 6d. Australian tallow is unchanged ; b ; st beef 36s ; best mutton 38s.

At the wool sale to-day 11,500 bales were catalogued. The tone of the sale was firm ; for combing thare i 3 more demand at slight improvement.

August 30. A banquet was given last night to Mr. Dillon, M.P., who was recently released from Kilmainham gaol, by a number of his friends and sympathisers, several Home Rule members being present. Mr. Dillon, in the course of his speech in reply to the toast of his health, alluded to thg Irish Land Act, which he characterised as worthless. He further announced his intention of resigning his seat for Tipperary and retiring into private life. An inquiry which has been held into the cause of the disaster to H.M.S. Dotterel in the Straits of Magellan in May last has resulted in finding that the explosion was due to the absence of ventilation in the magazine.

The English cricketers embark at Liverpool on the 17th September for America en route for New Zealand and Australia. Telegrams are to hand announcing that a most severe cyclone has been experienced on the South Atlantic coast of South America. It extended over a considerable area and was felt at several seaports and inland towns. The destruction to life and property is reported to have been very great. Paris, August 30. Telegrams have been received from Tunis announcing that the Arabs in the neighbourhood of Sous*, a seaport on the Tunisian coast, have made threatening demonstrations towards the inhabitants of the town, and the Jatter's position is considered very unsafe. It is probable, therefore, that a body of French troops now in Tunis will immediately occupy Sousa for the purpose of opposing the threatened attack by the Arabs.

Washington, August 30. This morning'a bulletin reports that President Garfield's condition continues to improve, and it is believed that he is now making good progress towards recovery.