BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2151, 11 February 1880, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[ReUTEr’s AGENCY.] About to be Wadded. Home, Feb. 9.—The Vatican is at present engaged in a discussion on certain proposals, which have been submitted to his Holiness, with the vinv of promoting the union of English Hitnalists with the Homan Catholic Church. Women’s Rights, New York, Feb. 9.—A Bill has been introduced into the State Legislature of lowa to make women eligible for election to the United States Congress. Sculling Match. London, Feb, 10.—A sculling match took place on the Tyne between Boyd and Elliott for £2OO a side, the former winning easily. Good News For Stockowners. The wool trade has revived. Owing to continued wet last year, sheep rot is extremely prevalent, especially in the Midland and IVestern counties. 10,000, chiefly ewes, are dead and dying. In a part of Oxford, Warwick, Somerset, and Gloucester, a small portion only is left. It is stated that it is expected that a large number of the lambing ewes will succumb. It is becoming a matter of serious consideration to wool growers. Sydney mutton sold to-day at oh to 6d; beef 41 to sd. Beef is not drawing so quickly asitis somewhat injured. Horae beef averages 6jd. American beef is the same as Australian. American mutton is sd.