LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.
London, Dec. 20. Consols further declined to-day to 99J. Colonial breadstuffs are without quotable change. A very severs storm continues over the greater part of England, anda gale has been blowing for the past two days, and has caused' further serious destruction in many Pisces. Correction in yesterday's telegram London, December 19; Read intelligence ia to hand from Africa that a false prophet who had collected 2GOO Negro fanatics in the Soudan has massacred 300 Egyptian troops Constantinople, Dec. 20. The Sultan has fssued a proclamation sanctioning the settlement arrived at between the Turkish Commission and bondholders' delegates regarding the payment of Otto man debt. New York, December 20. Intelligence has been 1 received hera regarding the Arctic exploring vessel Jeanette. The news to-hand is to tbe effect, that ah? was crushed by the ica in June last, and was abandoned, the effioers and crew taking to the boata. Oae boat load were rescued by the natives on the Siberian eo»st, and were
forwarded on to Irkutsk in Siberia. Another bost reached the mouth of the river Lena, and its crew were suffering fearfully. The other boat is missing, and it is feared that ail who were on board have perished.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 304, 22 December 1881, Page 2
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