BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2787, 28 February 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Redteb’s Agency.j English Grain Market- f London, Feb. 24. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has declined Is to 545; New Zealand wheat ex warehouse, has also fallen a Is. and is now at 50s. Adelaide flour remains at 40s. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,850,000 quarters. Lyttelton Ships HomeThe Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association report the arrival of the ship City of Tanjore from Lyttelton (left November 15), and the ship Lake Ontario at Calais, from Lyttelton (left November 6). The [lnsurrection in AustriaFeb. 25. A detachment of Turkish troops has been ordered to the frontiers of Montenegro and Bosnia, to prevent the Albanians joining the insurgents in' those provinces, which from information to hand, it is feared they are doing, under pretence of friendship towards the Austrians. This action is generally looked upon as fresh evidence of the friendly feeling which has prevailed of late between Turkey and Austria. The Lords and the Land ActFeb 27It has transpired that Mr Gladstone has summoned a meeting of the Liberal Members for to-day, to consider what course should be pursued in view of the action of the Lords in regard to the Committee of Enquiry into the working of the Irish Land Act. Anglo-French Trade- : ’ Feb. 24. In the House of Commons to-day tho Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in replj to a question, stated that it was intended that tho measure which had been introduced by the Minister for Commerce in tho French Chambers, providing for the most “favored national treatment” of English, goods should take effect as from May 15 next, and that in the meantime tho tariff fixed under the existing commercial treaty should remain in force. Sir Charles Dilke further stated that the action of the French Government was entirely voluntary, and added that England was in no way pledged as to the course she should pursue in view of tho non-conclusion of a now treaty with France.

Paris, Feb. 25. The Bill introduced by M. Tirard, Minister for Commerce, providing for the “ most favored national treatment” of English goods under the French tariff, has been adopted by the Chambers. Colliery Explosion in Hungary. Vienna, Feb. 26. Intelligence is to band that a_ disastrous explosion has occured in a colliery in Styria, Western Hungary, resulting in the death, as far as is known of fully 150 miners.