ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6670, 4 October 1883, Page 2

ENGLAND.

London, September 28. Tho frozen meat ex Mataura has been sold for soapboilers' purposes at a halfpenny per lb. None of it was marketable for ordinary consumption. Money is cheapening, and colonial securities are rising in value. The British Association has voted £100 for providing scientific apparatus for any expedition to New Guinea of which the council may approve. Messrs Healy, Small and O'Connor, National Leaguers, M.P.'s, have been assailed at their meetings, and the campaign in Ulster has been defeated. The Rev. Mr Shaw's case and an account of his colonial adventures are exciting strong public feeling against the action of Prance. The French Press adopt a very defiant tone.

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[.■Reuters Telegrams.] London, October 2. Tenders were opened to-day for tho South* Australian -i per cent, loan of a million and a half, at a minimum of £98 10_. The total amount offered was found to be £3,060,000. Tenders at £98 16s wil) receive 25 per cent, of allotment ; tenders above £98 16s will receive in full. The catalogue at to-day's wool sales comprised 8900 bales. The market continues firm. October 3. Sir Stafford Northcote, who is now visiting the North of Ireland, arrived yesterday in Belfast, where a fee was organised in his honor.