LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 82, 5 October 1881, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE LONDON MARKETS. SIR S. NORTHCOTE AND THE LAND LEAGUE. THE WAR IN TUNIS. OUTRAGE AND MASSACRE BY THE ARABS. ' London, 3rd October. Consols have farther declined J, and are to-day quoted at 9S§. New Zealand securities are without change in price. The breadstuff s market is unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 59s ; New Zealand wheat, 57s ; Adelaide flour, ex store, 42a 6d. Australian tallow- Best beef, 39s 6d ; best mutton, 433. Total stock in London on lßt instant, 12,100 casks. Arrived — Steamship Orient, from Australia. Her shipment of frozen meat is reported to be in adtnirablo condition. Sir Stafford Northoote made a speech today at Hull, in the course of which ho expressed the opinion that it was necessary for r,he Government to take rigorous meaeuros to prevent the League doing anything to nullify the effect of the Irish Land Act Paris, 3rd October. Telegrams have been received from Tunis reporting that the rebel Arabs have made an attack upon and have completely destroyed the station at Ould Zorgha, on the TunisAlgerian railway, and are further reported to have massacred all the officials at the station. FATAL OUTRAGE BY A BURGLAR. TERRIBLE GALE IN TEE BALTIC. LOSS OF THIRTY SHIPS. DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. BURNING OF A JEWISH TABERNACLE. MATCH BETWEEN HANLAN As2> ROSS. l>gF [SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AGE.] London, 21st September. An audacious outrage has bocn perpetrated at Kingston, one of the suburbs of London, by two criminals, who were discovered by a po'iceman in the act of committing a burglary. U hey resisted him, and one, drawing a revolver, shot the constable dead. He thon wich his companion made his escape. A terrible gale has been experienced in the Baltic, which has caused great damage amongst shipping. Intelligence already received reports that no fewer than thirty ships were lost, and a large ntiinbor of sailors were drowned. A violent storm has raged on the northeast coast of Kngland, and has done much damage to the fine breakwater at the mouth o£ the Tyno, on which river the great shipping port of Newcastle is situated. It was extensively injured by the force of the wavea. A most destructive tornado has taken place in Illinois, United States. The storm raged with fearful violence, and its course was marked by the destruction of all that lay in its path. Several persons were killed, and damage to property was oxtensive. The town of Jeremie, a seaport on the Island of Hayti, on its eouth-weat peninsula, 120 miles west of Port-au-Prince, has been almost entireiy destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at 500,000 dollars. In the province of Gailicia, Austria, a Jewish tabernacle was discovered to be on fire duriug the progress of divine service. When the alarm was given, a terrible panic ensued among the congregation, and, in the Btrngglo to leave the burning building, four persons were killed. Cholera has made its appearance among the Mussulman pilgrims flocking to the sacred city of Mecca, and tho disease is causing fearful ravages. Jbianlan has finally decided to accept the challengo of Wallace Ross to a rowing match for the championship. The contest, which will probably take place at Toronto, will be held on tho Ist November.