BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2663, 3 October 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Aqency.j Produce Market London, Sept. 29. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 68s ; New Zealand ditto, 565; New Zealand flour, ex store, 425. Australian tallow: best beef, 425; best mutton, 45 s; best sides of Australian leather, llfd. There is a fair demand for most description of Australian hides. Rise in Wheat Sept. 30. Colonial breadstuffs have advanced Is ; Adelaide wheat, ex store, 60s ; New 1 Zealand wheat, ex store, 59s ; Adelaide flour, ex store, 42s 6d. | Australian tallow, best beef, has fallen to 39s 6d and best mutton 43s per cwt. Money Market Consols have fallen a £ and are quoted to-day at 99. New Zealand securities are without quotable change. The Bank of South Australia has dc* dared a dividend of 5 per cent for the past half-year, and carried forward £IOOO to the reserve fund. Wool. At the wool sale to-day 7800 bales were offered. The tone of the auction was rather weaker. 34,000 bales have been witbdrawan from sale since the commencement of the series. Iron. Galvanised iron is unchanged at £l7 10s. Outrages in Ireland. Intelligence is to hand from Ireland that a renewal of the riots directed against process servers has occurred in several places iu that country. The more serious disturbances have occurred at Roscrea, Mobil], and dare. News has also been received of a dastardly outrage on a landlord’s residence at New Pallas. A barrel of gunpowder was exploded near the bouse,and caused its partial, destruction. The perpetrators of the outrage hare not yet been discovered. French and English Trade. Paris, Sep. 30. The negotiations which have been proceeding in this city since the 19th inst. between the representatives of England and France on the subject of the commercial relations of the two countries, have been temporarily suspended, snd the British Commissioners are nmy returning to London, in order to confer with Government as to their further course of action. London, Qcfc. 1. The “ Times” in a leading article today, in referring to the return of the British Commissioners from Paris, states that difficulties have arisen in the negotiations which have been proceeding between France and England, and adds that the proposal of the former to levy specific import duties on cotton and woollens is virtually insuperable, and will preclude any understanding being arrived at. Fighting in Tunis. Telegrams received to-day from Tunis report that two severe engagements have been fought between Arab insurgents and Tunisian tooops. In both actions the latter were defeated. The Transvaal. Capetown, Sep. 30. Telegrams received to-day from Pretoria announce that the Transvaal Volksraad has deferred the Anglo-Boer Convention to a Select Committee, to decide upon its ratification or rejection, and that the Volksraad has, in the meantime adjourned until Monday next, Oct; 3rd. Further telegrams report that General Sir Evelyn Wood has, in view of the delay in the ratification of the Convention, been invested by the Imperial Government with full powers to act in the event of any emergency, and that the General has ordered active preparation on the part of the British troops in the Transvaal, in order to be prepared for any difficulty that may arise.