BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2773, 11 February 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

, [Redteb’s Agency.) - i : Money. London Feb. 9. Three per cent consols have declined to 99f. New Zealand 5 per cent 10-40 loan, is unohanged at 104$; 5 per cent 1 1889 loan, 104; 4s, per cent 1879-1904 Joan, si quoted to-day at 995, eYdiW* The total reserve in the Bank of England in notes and bullion is £9,900,000. , ; J. . r , , The Bank rate of-discount is unchanged at 6 per cent; market rate 84; per. cent.. • .i - • ■.{ .... WheatAdelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has fallen to 65s | New ZeialWnd ditto is fliii?, j changed at 535. Adelaide flour, ez.i warehouse, 425. ■ Wool- :r> The first series of wool sales for the present, year . will .commence on the i 28th inst. The arrivals to’date amount to 120,000 bales. The total probable quantity to be offered during the series, including 10,000 bales held oyer; from.? the November and December sales, is 310,000. The quantity of new arrival# to be offered during the series has been Restricted by the Importers’ fcdin- i mittee to 300,000 bales. : | Hides and Pat* , i *.», s Australian bides, light weights, are id lower. Heavy q ualities are liv; good (4 demand. Australian tallow, best 425; best mutton,,4Bs. ~.. A ■ ; j IronScotch pig iron has declined Is. No* T f.o.b. in the Clyde, is quoted at 51a ■per tom , - r ■ ..j* >; • Cloture- , Mr Gladstone’s . motion for, the ;adpp|,,,q tion of cloture,; will be opposed by vfllt/ Stafford Nothcote, .as leader 1 Jof jthe;;' ' Conservative 'party.,',;’; , r ~a Persecution of the Jews.

In the Blouse of Commons to-day Mr Gladstone was (questioned as to what action, if any, Government proposed to take in regard to the persecution of the Jews in Eussia. In reply, the Premier deplored the outrages whiooU have been committed against the Jews, bat stated: that the; question was-an il internal, and not an international ’ f | The Government would, however, he added, intercede with the Eussian authorities when * a fitting occasion >■* arose. • 1; " J "' r * I UnfoundedSeport-,,; . It is how known that there'is no foundation, for the report, whichhasbeen currently the effect !that Eull •Granville has verbally protested to the Eusian Ambassador against the re* cently made treaty , settling the. EussoPersian frontiers. . . . ' i .. “Mho shall be King?” • j, Caieo, Fob. 9. At a- meeting of the Council of r Ministers yesterday t> Mr, Colvin, and jM, |\ de Bleqiies, ‘ Controllers General for Great Britain and France, formally protested against ■ the Ministerial' pro* gramme recently set forth, and the action of the Cabinet Jn upholding .the! demands of the Notables for the control of the Budget, on the grounds that the delegation of such, power to the Assembly “was a contravention of the international agreeiheht' With regard t 6 ' i: Egyptian finances, and would limit the power, 0f,., the,, Controliere-General In-'-: dealing with the national debt. The Controliers-General further informed Ministers that they claimed the iright tof a voice in the preparation of the entire Budget. ' : :

A Correspondent .Murdered* ■ j- . -Constantinople, Feb;:o. A telegram hasj bqenKrejbaived: here- < reporting that the special,, correspondent of the “ London Times” in Albania has been murdered by the Arnants, an » Albanian tribe. ’ ' , The Boers at War. > Capetown,Feb. 8, Intelligence is to hand from the Transvaal to the: effect' that an armed - force of Boers has crossed the boundary defined by the Anglo:Eoer Convention into native and attacked the ; chief Montsima. The natives, however, ,; , were in strong force, and .repulsed, »the»«. Boers. According to the latest accounts fighting still continues. ,