BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2789, 2 March 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Agency, j MoneyLondon, Feb 28. Consols have advanced £, and are now quoted at IOOf. New Zealand securities remain at the following quotations :—5 per cent 10-40 loan, 105; 5 per cent 1899 loan 104; 4| per cent 1879-1904 loan, 100. GrainThe wheat market is dull. Adelaide ex store, remains at 545; and New Zealand ditto, at 50s. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is quoted at 40s. WoolThe new series of the colonial wool auctions opened to-day. There was a large attendance both of Home and foreign buyers. The opening catalogue comprised 6400 bales. The bidding was animated, and good competition was experienced for the various lots ofßred. The prices ruling at the close of the late sales were firmly maintained. The present series of auctions will close on sth April. Frozen MeatThe cargo of frozen meat, per steamship Orient, consisting of mutton and lamb has been sold at an average of fivepence halfpenny per pound. The meat was of fair quality. MailsThe homeward Australian and New Zealand mails, via Brindisi, which left Melbourne on the 18th January, were delivered in London yesterday. Stranding of a New Zealand ShipThe ship Woodville, bound to Port Chalmers from Liverpool, went ashore at Holyhead, North Wales. The captain and some of the crew were^drowned. The vessel has been got off, and she has been taken back to Liverpool for repairs. Nihilism. St. Petersburg, Feb. 27. The trial of twenty prominent Nihilists has just concluded. Ten of the accused have been sentenced to death, and ten to penal servitude for life.