BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2567, 13 June 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Aqenct.j London, June 10. Wheat and WoolTho total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,990,000 quarters. Best sides of Australian leather are quoted at ll|d. At the wool sale to-day 9,100 hales were catalogued. The market was firm' FinancialJune 11. Consols remain at 100 1 9th. New Zealand 5 per cent 1889 loan, 105 ; New Zealand 5 per cent dj per cent 1878-1901 loan, 103. IrelandFifty rioters arrested during the recent disturbances at Cork hare been sentenced to various terras of imprison ment. Tho police and military in lie land are actively engaged in suppressing all meetings of tho Land League. At five different places to day meetings were prohibited and the people dispersed. Owing to the increased disorder in Ireland, large reinforcements of troops are being sent there,especially to augment forces in the southern districts. Warm Reception of the ChineseNews lias been received from Chili that 1000 Chinese have been massacred by the negro inhabitants of Sauta Rosa.

A Denial and a Confession* Telegrams are to band from New York reporting that at an interview held with O’Donovan Rossa he denied that Fenians were guilty of complicity in the recent attempt to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall, but states that he was aware that ia December last explosives were placed in the hold of H.M.S. Doterill, which was destroyed by an explosion in the Straits of Magellan on April 26.