LETEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 7 November 1881, Page 2

LETEST ENGLISH NEWS.

LOSS br A NSW ZEALAND SHIP ON TEE ENGLISH COAST. Lokdox, Noy. 3. Best sideß of Australian leather have suffered a dsclina, and aro how quoted at As the barrjue Craigard from Lyttelton was proceeding from London to Hull with 10,816 bags of wheat on board she came into colli»ioti with the steamer Grimsby. The Craigahl sank iv a short time having been seriously damaged. All oh board wero saved. It h not known what damage was sustained by the steamer. Consols have advanced to 99J. Tha bank rate of discount remains at 5, and the markat rate at 4 per cent. Tho total raserve in notes and bulliou in the Bank of .England is .«10.200,C00. New Zealand securities 5 per cent 10 40 loan 103.1; 5 per cent ]SB9 j oan ]02 ex dividend; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan 995. A lelaida and New Zealand braadatulfaand Australian tallow are without quotable chiajje in price. Best Scotch pig iron, No. I f tf.b., has declined one shilling per ten and i» to-day quoted at 51s. The dividend declared by the London Chartered Bank of Australia is at the rat* of 5 per cent for tho year and not the half year as stated iv a telegram of the ls> instant. Tho Irish Lasd League is advising tenant* to apply to tho Land Commission for tha decision cf disputed quotums with thi ol jjet of creating a deadlock, ard tlsua hampsring the work of the Commissioners. Many of the fr<»h cases which have lately been submitted bare, it i* bslievad, only baan referred to the Commission with the view of ob si met ing its labors. Further details which hays beea received of th» rioting which look plice yesterday at Ballmullet in Ireland show that tha first accounts wore greatly overdrawn. Tho conflict between the poli«9 and tha rioters was of a sevore ohiracter, bu» only a few of tho latter were iDJured by the fldng of fhe police. NoTember 4. Consols have advanced to 99 J. New Zealand securities &re un«hanged. Several decisions lately given by the Irish Load Sub-Commiision Bittii-g at Belfasj have been f ftTorable to the tanants, and kare in mtny aasas had the sffeet of largely ra ducinj the prssent rack rents payable l»j them on varicus sstates, Nov. 5. There ara no changes to report in the money or produce markets. Boat selection of transpareHt kauri gum is quoted at £10 2s 6d. Paeiß, November 3. | Gambitia, having undartakan the talk of formica: a sow Ministry, has rcaigned t a » Preaidescy of iha Chamber of Deputies, ani M. Brinon, on» ef tho vioa-presidsntg, wav to-day el««ted to tho vacant position. November 4. A s.rjai-offlcul statamsnt haa bsen pabHsh*d ta tha effeot that, notwithstanding tha *uap*nsion of Ihe deliberations wfcich ware proceeding bstween the English and French Trsaty CotnmittioDirs, it is hoped an exahange of diplomatic commusiaations between ths Govsrnmanta of ihe two countries may yat result in bringing obout the sottieai«Et of th« points raised by England, and which are still in dispute. Tha stalamant adda that the great cordislHy waicb prevailed between ths British and Freucfc delegates duriny the progress of the recent negotiations affords grounds for the belief that a definite settlsmant-of the Anglo French commsrcial rWations may be come t«-at an early date. T ha London Times publishsi a leading: ar< icle upon the present aspect of the negotiations, in tha course of which it is stated .that the difficulty which exists still relates principally to the proposal of the French Government to levy specific duties upon British woollen and cotton m&nutaotures. At tat meeting of th« Chamber of Deputies to-day M. Ferry, President of the. Council, informed the Chamber that Ministers bad deferred for ihe present tendering their resignations, preferring to meat the proposed rote of esnsure on their polioy in Tunis. NoTembfr 5. Telegrams aro to hand from Algiers annoasoing that M. Albert Grevy has resigned tha Governor-Generalship «f Algeria. Vibnka, November 6. Ths Austrian Government has decided to extasd tfee period of ssrvice of the army now in occapatica of Bosnia. BasLis, November 5. Prisce Bismarck has withdrawn a letter ia which be urges the GermaH peopla to combat the plott Dgsof the Progressionists whom he eb&raeteriiss as eaemies of tha Emperor and Empire. The nawly elected German Beicastag will meet for tha dispatch of business on the 17th ias*. San Francisco, November 2. The Pacific Kail sSeamship City of New York arrived here to-day from Auokland with tha homeward Eogluh mails, one daj ia advanoe of her contracl time. Ottawa Not. 5. His Excellency the Marquis of Lome has left Canada on a journey t« England, and embarked to-d*y at New York.