BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2866, 1 June 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Rkhtkr’s Aorinov.j Kauri Gum. London, May 30. At an auction of kauri gum, higher prices were realised. The Land League. The leaders of American branches of the Irish Land League are making urgent appeals to sympathisers for subscriptions. The funds of the League have shown a heavy decrease since the Phoenix Park murders. . . Mails, The mails per Orient s.s. Sorata,which left Melbourne on April 19th, were de. livered here to-day, Commercial. Consols have declined to 102|. New Zealand securities remain at the follow; ing quotations 5 per cent 10-40 loan, 1002-; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 105 ; per cent 1879-1904 loan, 103£. Egyptian Affairs. Caibo, May 30. Arabi Pasha made a speech in which he openly boasted that the Sultan of Turkey had decided to depose Tewfiek Pasha, and enthrone Prince Halim in his place. The panic among the Europeans, owing to the critical state of the country, is daily increasing, and there has already been a considerable exodus from this and other towns to Alexandria.

Constantinople,, May 30, It has transpired that Lord Dufferin and Marquis de Noalles, the English and French Ambassadors, have addressed a joint note to the Porte requesting that Arabi Pasha, the leader o£ the Nationalist party in Egypt, and his chief associates in the agitation, should forthwith be summoned by the Sultan to Constantinople. The Turkish ironclads stationed in the Bosphorous are now engaged in coaling. It is believed it is the intono£ the Porte to despatch them at ones to Alexandria.