BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2666, 6 October 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter's Aqency.j Money, London, Oct. 3. Consols have further declined and are to day quoted fat 98|. Hew Zealand securities are without change in price. Produce. The breadstuffs market is unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex store, is quoted at 595; New Zealand, ditto, 57s ; Adelaide flour, ex store, 425. Australian tallow, best beef, 39s 6d ; best mutton, 435. The total stock in London on the Ist inst. was 12,100 casks. Frozen Meat. Arrived Steamship Orient, from Australia. The forzen meat shipped by her is reported to be in admirable condition. Oct. 4. IronPig iron, Ha 1, f.o.b. in Clyde has advanced 2s per ton, and is quoted today at 545. WoolAt the Wool sales to-day 8300 bales were catalogued. The prices were firmly maintained. Land League. Sir Stafford Northcote made a speech yesterday at Hull, in the course of which he expressed the opinion that it was necessary for the Government to take vigorous measures to prevent the Land League doing anything to nullify the effect of the Irish Land Act. WarParis, Oct. 3. Telegrams have been received from Tunis reporting that the rebel Arab® have made an attack upon, and have completely destroyed the station at Onet Zergha, on the Tunis-Algerian line ’of railways, and are further reported to have massacred all the officials at that station. Policy. Capetown, Oct. 4 Telegrams to hand to-day from Pretoria announce that the Select Committee appointed to decide upon the ratification or rejection of the Anglo-Boer Convention, has made its report to the Volksraad to a secret sitting, which is now being held. The decision of the Committee has therefore not transpired. Peace. Constantinople, Oct. 4. The Sultan has explained to Earl Duffierin, the British Ambassador, that the Commission which he has despatched to Egypt is merely one to the Khedive, of a friendly nature, and not charged to enquire into the recent military outbreak.