TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 351, 8 February 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London,* Feb. 3. Consols remain at 99£. Four and a half percent New Zealand loan 27, ex dividend. The next series of wool sales opens on the 15th inst. The arrivals to date for the,,auctions amount to 199,000 bales. The total probable quantity to be offered is 300,000 bales.

Feb. 4. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,490,000 quarters. . Australian tallow ; best beef, 34s 6d; best mutton, 89s. The debate on the Irish Coercion/Bill was resumed in the House of Commons last evening. . The Irish members again pursued a course of obstruction, and much disorder prevailed. Finally*'Mr Parnell and all bis adherents .were by the Speaker’s order, expelled from the House and the discussion on the measure is ncOrproceeding:quietly. Great sensation has been i caused owing to the expulsion of the 'obstructors. •< Afternoon.

Shortly after the Irish obstructors had been expelled, the House discussed Mr Gladstone’s resolution that a majority ot three-fourths on a passage of motion of “ urgency,” should suffice to give the Speaker supreme control. The motion was slightly modified and adopted:' The Coercion Bill was then declared “urgent” in order that the Speaker should have full power to put down any obstruction to its discussion and the debate was resumed. The House is still:, sitting. Mr Parnell has issued a manifesto in which he urges his followers to act with calmness, and promises to renew the fight against the Coercion Bill in Parliament. /*N liATfcR. /

The expulsion of Mr Parnell and liis followers from the. House of Commons last night was proposed by Mr Gladstone, who moved that their expuUion, and nothing less, would suffice to restore order. The motion was carried, and the Speaker gave orders that the obstructors be expelled. An unexampled scene of tumult and disorder ensued. Many members who were ordered to retire resisted the officers of the House. Mr Dillon, opposed them violently, and was forcibly expelled. Finally all the obstructors left the chamber, and order was restored. Michael Davitt, who recently returned from America, where he had established a branch of the. Land League, has been arrested in Ireland for sedition. ,

The Daily News to day publishes a telegram stating that' the Ashantees threaten t'> make war against the settlers and natives in the British colony of Sierra Leone, on the West Coast of Africa. The telegram furthar states that in consequence of the attitude of the Ashantees, detachments of Ist West India Regiment, stationed at Freetown have been ordered to proceed to the border to oppose any attack. The sitting of the House of Commons was closed this afternoon, the debate on the Irish Coercion Bill being further postponed. The proceedings after the expulsion of the Irish obstructors were ot an orderley character. ’