TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5074, 12 December 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

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LONDON, December 8.

Consols have advanced to 99-f. New Zealand securities are unchanged at the following quotations:—Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 105 ; five per cent 1889 loan, 104; four and a-half per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 101f. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £11,125,000. The Bank rate of discount remains at 5 per cent., and the market rate at 4b. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 565; New Zealand, 525. rAdelaide flour, ex warehouse, 4ls 6d; Australian tallow—best beef, 38s 6d; best mutton, 41s 6d. At the wool sale to-day a firm and active demand waa experienced. The catalogue comprised 8,300 bales. LONDON, December 9. Five additional Land Snb-commis-sioners have been appointed in Ireland. The Lord Mayor of London invites a national subscription to assist in the defence of property in Ireland. A serious collision occurred to-day between three trains on the North London Railway, resulting in the loss of nine lives, and injuries of more or less serious character to many of the passengers. There are no changee to report to-day in the money market, or in colonial produce. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,690,000 quarters. No wool sale was held this afternoon, owing to the dense fog which prevailed in Losdon. PARIS, December 9. Intelligence is to hand from Tunis that the French troops have of late been everywhere successful over the Insurgents, a remnant of whom are now only left. These are retreating to the frontier of Tripoli, and the French troops are in pursuit. A considerable force of Turkish troops has been despatched from Tripoli to the frontier, to protect it against the retreating rebels. VIENNA, December 9. A disastrous conflagration, accompanied with immense loss of life, occurred last night in this city. During a performonce at the Ring (sic) Theatre, a lighted lamp fell on the stage, which was at once ignited. The fire spread with great rapidity, and in a short time the flames had blocked all means of exit from the building. Sixty persons leaped from windows into extended articles of clothing held by others in the streets below, and were saved. The majority of those in the theatre were, however, unable to escape, and were burnt to death. Over three hundred corpses have up to the present been extricated from the ruins of the buildißgs, which has been completely gutted. Five hundred corpses in all have now been extricated from the scene of last night's fire at the theatre, and it is feared that the total loss of life was fully 750. ROME, December 8. A grand and impressive ceremony was performed to-day at St. Peter's, the occasion being the canonisation of fonr eminent deceased members of the Church of Rome. The rites of canonisation were performed by Pope Leo, and the proceedings were marked with great splendour and brilliancy. His Holiness, whose health has for a long time past been most unsatisfactory, continues in a very feeble state, and was only able with difficulty to take part in the day's proceedings. WASHINGTON, December 9. The convention providing for the exchange of the money-order system between the United States and New Zealand and New Sonth Wales, was to-day signed bj President Arthur.