BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2568, 14 June 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Redter’s Agency.j CommercialFoo Chow, June 11* A large business is doing in tea at last week’s quotations, but low prices are expected. The total export to the colonies will be three million pounds. The steamships Lome and Killamey have already sailed with full cargoes for the colonies. J nne 13. The steamship Bowen, with a cargo of new season’s teas, will sail for New Zealand direct from this port. London. Jane 11. Galvanised iron, 26 gauge, is unchanged at £l6 10s; best Sydney copra is quoted at £l3 14s, or a decline of 10s a ton. Loyal BoersJune 12. Earl Kimberley,Secretary of State for the Colonies, has consented to receive a deputation from the loyal Boers in the Transvaal. Horseracing in PranceParis, June 12. The race for the Grande Prix was run this afternoon, and resulted in a victory for Foxhall, Tristan being second, and Albion third. Egyptian MurderersLondon, June 13. News has been received that twelve Italian explorers have been massacred by natives in the interior of Egypt. DiplomaticThe following diplomatic appointments are officially announced : —The Hon L. S. Sackvillo West, British Minister at Madrid, will succeed the Right Hon. Sir E. Thornton at Washington. Mr R. B. D. Merrier, C. 8., Minister at Lisbon, will replace the Hon. Sackville West at Madrid ; and Sir Gr. L. Wyke, G.C.M.G., K.C.8., now Minister at Copenhagen, will su.eeed Mr Merrier as Minister to Portugal.