GERMANY AND THE JEWISH PERSECUTIONS. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 55, 3 September 1881, Page 2

GERMANY AND THE JEWISH PERSECUTIONS. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

London, Ist September. Three per cent codsols are unchanged at 99*. New Zealand securities are firm at the following quotations : — 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 104 ; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 102fr ; 4£ per cent. 1879-1901 loan, 102±. Total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £12,600,000. The bank rate of discount remains at 4 per cent. ; market rate, 3. Adelaide wheat has declined Is, and is quoted to-day at 38s, ex warehouse ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, has fallen 6d, to 41s nd. Australian tallow is nnchanged at 36s for best beef, and 38s for be3t mutton. At the wool sale to-day, 8500 bales were catalogued, making a total of 81 500 bales offered since the opening. A firm and active demand was experienced. Withdrawals to date amount to 6joo bales. Paris, Ist September. Telegrams are to hand trom Tunis reporting that a severe conflict between the French troops and a strong body of Arab insurgents has taken place at Hammamet, resulting in the defeat of the former, after several houra' hard fighting. The losses are not reported. Since tho receipt of the above intelligence, the French Government has issued orders for the immediate despatch of reinforcements for the army in the Tunisian territory, and the embarkation of troops is now proceeding at Toulon and Marseilles. Telegrams received to-day from Algiers report that vast conflagrations, which are known to have been caused by Arab incendiaries, have broken out in many parts of the province. The threatening attitude of the arab fanatics is causiig great alarm. 2nd September. Further intelligence ha 3 been received today from Tunis, announcing that since the engagements, of which news came to hand yesterday, between the Arab insurgents and the French troops, iresh encounters have taken place in the neighbourhood of Hammamet, an important Beaport a few miles south of the capital. The French troops have, it is now reported, been twice successful over the Arabs, who suffered severe repulses and a loss of over one thousand killed, besides a large number of wounded The French have since occupied Hammamet in force, and retain possession of the town Berlin, 2nd September. The German Government has taken occasion to announce that it will adopt the most stringent measures possible to suppress the strong anti- Jewißh feeling which is manifesting itself throughout the country. Adelaide, 2nd September. Wheat is firm at 5s 6d ; town flour, .£l2 17s 7d ; country brands, .£ll 16s.