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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 83, 28 November 1881, Page 2

London, Nov. 25. Consols are unchanged at 100£. New Zealand securities are without quotable change. At the wool sales to-day 8,200 bales were offered, making s total of 29,900 lalo9 catalogued since the opening. Au active demand was experienced for all descriptions. At the municipal electiib.3 whicn tcok place to-day at Cork, iv Ireland, the vaiious candidates piofessing sympathy with the Land Lea«u3 were defeated by considerably njajoiiues, : ' The London Gazette to-day contaim the announcement that the dignity of Knight Commander of the Order o? St. Michael and St. George hap been conferred upon (ha Ron Josrna Peter Bell, President of the Legislative Council ia QufceDSlandi : ' 'i*Tov. SG. Owing to the continued increase of business brought before the Laud Courts, three additional Commissioners have been appointed in Ireland to deal with the cases under the Land Act. Consols have risen to 100*. There are no further changes to report in lbs mocey marker, or in colonial breadstuff." or tallow-, _ . ' At tb'a T71301 auction to-dsy 7690 bales were c fferrd, and a firm and active demand was again experienced. A? compared with the rates ruling at the cloeo o£ the last sales piicesfor fleecs are now fuily l£d higher; scoured is about one penny, aad gieasy cross breds are Id to l£d higher. The iiight lion the Mtreuhof Har ington, Secretary of State for Ljou, nddrasscd a crowded meeting at Blackbus-n.in Lancashire, this evening. In the Course cf his gpefeb he a !i u ! ied " t length to tho present state of affairs in Ireland. lie regretted that tho shuation in that Sous try caused the utmost anxiety, and was calculated to inspire the greatest disappointment and dissatisfaction. Agrarian outrages were alarmiagly rife, and the exercise of the ngbis i>f properity was frcught with difficulty and danger. Ilia lordship added that ihe lituation was receiving the ernest attention of the Government, which would continue to act with unswerving firmness and inexhaustible patience. The barque Pampero, 588 tons, bound from Liverpool to Port Chalmers, experienced b »evere goto off t>e Engliah coast, during which she was dismasted. She has been towed into Penzance for rep urs. ■ . Bkklix,.Nov. 25. At a meeting of the Reichstag today, Prince Bismarck made a statement in which he aliuded to the situation of the Government in view of the result of the recent elections The Chancellor announced that in the event of the failr.re of the projects which he would lay 'before the Parliament ha would resign the conduct, of home tffairs, entrusting the same to the VicePresident of the Council, while he would himself retain. control of ths foreign affairs of the Empire. . Vienna, Nov 26. . The decision of the Government to place Bosnia under the Austrian system of military service has caused great discontent among the Uussians, especially on the part of those residents in the district of Cattaro on the Montenegrin frontier, The inhabitants of that district have risen in arms against the Austrian authorities, and severe fighting has already taken place between the insurgents and the Austrian troops despatched to Cattaro. St Petersburg, Not 26. An attempt on the life of General Ignatieff, Minister of tke Interior, was made in this city today by a youth who tired at the General with a revolver. He was at once arrested and has since confessed that he was instigated to commit the attempted crime.