BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2816, 3 April 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

? . [RKO'i’En’s Agency.] . 1 , Coirnneroial- . ; .... LoNDOif, March3l.> 1 Consols have declined to 10T|. : The Bank rate of discount remains at 3 per cent, and the market rate: at i;3f. : The total reserve in notes afad bullion in the Bank of England is ; Hew, Zealand securities are firm at the following quotations*s’per. cent 1040 loan, 104 5 per cept 1041; 4 percent 1879-1904 loan, m • • Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, is ufi- r changed at 56s fid, and. ditto, 51s fid. Adelaide flour, ex store, ■> it at 37s fid. ;• - * >: -’i • Australian tallowrrbest bebf, 39s fill; ' best mutton, 44s fid. ■ ; ; At the Wool bale to-dky. • 10,900 Vales i-j were offered, and a decidedly firmer ' tone was experienced.. - : , -i.c, vj v :Taxatibn f,:f!; ■ Great opposition is being shown in many parts of Spain to the. increased . taxation, recently .imposed Government:' ..in, Barcelona and in other parts, tHo feeling against ' the demand's of the authorities has ran SO high that serious iibts have occurred,p ahd'the'.'military out 'to suppress (the disturiianeepi; • k, , n I Owing to the increasing .'disturhancei' l * and rioting arising Biit 6^' the opposition 1 " shown to, the additional taxatiornwhiofr.;is being levied, the pro vinca of-Cata-/ ! lonia has been declared’’in a state- o£ si siege. ~ :

The Church in PFussia- , The Prussian Diet has voted measures ■. providing for the enlargement of the scope of the ecclesiastical laws of Prussia. ~ ■ ..., , The Budget. . It is announced that the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliVer the Budget State* ment on April 2D' ‘ • ’ : ■ - ’ i A Female Rioter-’' ;A sister of Mr, A, P. O’Connor, M.P-, for Landledgner, who has recently been openly inciting tenants to pay nd'rent, , has been arrested, and sentenced to six months’imprisonment. Russian Organisation. Telegrams are to hand from Central Asia reporting that the ’Russians have organised regular caravans .between their present posts near, the Caspian s! ' Sea and Merv, in Turkistan. AssassinationHows is to hand .from Odessa that ■ General Strolmkow,' public prosecutor at that town) -has been shot at and killed. : , . , University Boat. Race. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race was rowed ‘to-day* and resulted in an easy victory for Oxford by six lengths.