BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2934, 21 August 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Rkct'be’s Agbncv.j CommercialLondon, August 17. Consols are unchanged at 99-|, The market rate of discount has been raised from 3} to 3£ per cent, and is now £ below the Bank rate. There is a fair demand for Australian hides at full prices. There are no quotable changes in New Zealand securities, colonial breadstuffs or tallow. Lathe. Consols are unchanged at 99|, and Hew Zealand securities at last quotations. Colonial wheat has fallen fid, and Adelaide, ex store, is quoted at 495, and New Zealand ditto 48s. Adelaide flour has declined la to 355, ex warehouse. Australian tallow is unchanged. Galvanised iron remains at £l7 10s for 26 guage. Best Sydney Copra has advanced 10s, and is now worth £l7 10s. Needless Discussion. August 18.

In the House oi Commons last night, an excited debate took place regarding the sentence passed on Mr Gray, M.P. for Carlow, for publishing in the “Freeman’s Journal ” an article reflecting on the judges and jurymen engaged in the trial of an agrarian murderer. The discussion lasted some boars, and was of‘a stormy character, but finally lapsed without anv result.

A Disgraceful Deed* [“ Age” Special.] London, August 18,5.93 p.m. A family of four persons, supposed to be informers, have been murdered near Lough Conn, in Connaught. Parliament ProroguedBoth Houses of Parliament adjourned to-day till October, when an extraordinary autumn session will be held, for the purpose of dealing with Mr Gladstone’s proposed now rales of procedure. murder of a Family by Land LeaguersNews is to band from Ireland that a party of Land Leaguers made an attack upon a house at Mullighadrum, and shot a family numbering four persons. New C-M.G-’s-August 19. : The following appointments of Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George are announced : Charles J. Roberts, of Sydney, and George Meareo, of Melbourne.