BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
[Reuter's Aqenot.J The Markets. London, June 30. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 50s ; New Zealand, ex ship, 47s ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 34s ; Australian beef tallow, best 35s 6d ; best mutton 37s 6d. At the wool auction to-day 8300 bales were offered. The firm tone of the market was again maintained. Prices generally for greasy wools are now a tsd to a Id higher than at the close of last sales. A Fight with the Arabs. Paris, June 30. Telegrams to hand from Tunis announcing that hostilities have occurred at Bfax, a seaport town on the Tunisian coqst, between a detachment
otFrench troops and- the Arab tribes resident there. - Troops had been despatched to quell the. rising of ; the tribes which recently broke out in the Sfax district, and on- thqir landing £t the port they were, fired upon by Arabs who had gathered in force to. oppose their debarkation. , The troops rp.tnrned the fire, which was, kept .up fpr •■some time, .but the Arabs were finally driven back. Several on both , sides wounded. ' ■ including the'French'Cohsul Who 'Was ’ -landing troops.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2585, 4 July 1881, Page 2
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