LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 228, 24 September 1881, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Calcutta, September 2.2 Telegrams received to-day from Candahar report that the Ameer has formed a new camp in the neighborhood of the city, and one wbich commands the roads both to Herat and Candahar. London, September 22. Tho City Corporation at its sitting to-day adopted an address of condolence with Mrs Garfield oa the loss of her husband. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £13,000,000, an increase of £600,000 during the week. Bank rate remains at 4, and market rnte at 3| per cent. At the wool Bale yesterday C3OO bales were offered, and an active demand was shown for all descriptions offered. The tone of to-day's sale was, however, weaker 7100 bales were catalogued. The total quantity withdrawn from sale since (he commencement of the series is 21.000 bales. The auctions close on the 9th October. Consols, 99J. New Zealand securities are without quotable change. The market for Adelaide and New Zealand breadstoffJ is steady at the following quota-

-7P^ A i e,aide wheat > ex Btore » 678 5 New wheat, ex Btore, 535 ; Adelaide flour, Australian tallow, best beef, 40s ; beet mutton, 42s 6<\ Best Scotch pig iron, No. I f.o.b. in the Uyde is quoted at 52b; galvanised iron 26 gauge, £17 ios; leit Sydney copra, £14. T September 23. It has transpired tbat the Right Hon W. E (jladstone, in consideration of the estimation in which the late President Garfield was he:d, hus made a request to the City Corporation for the erection of a bust of the deceased in the Guildhall, „. 7 , Paris, September 22. M. liouatan, the French Resident in I vms, who baa bsen on a tiait to this city for the purpose of conferring with his Government iv regard to tbe position of affairs in Tunis, has returned to his post. Washington, September 23. Geceral Arthur, in his inaugural address on assuwiug ofrlce, expressed the hope that he blight profit by tbe good example and experience of the late President. He further states that he does not consider it necessary to call Parliament together at the present tune.