LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 186, 16 December 1881, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[Beutkr's Special to Stab.]

LONDON, December 13. A large and important meeting was held to-day at the Mansion House wheu an influential committee was formed for the purpose of raising money for the defence of property m Ireland.

December 14.

Consols have declined £, and are now i standing at 99f . New Zealand securities j are firm at last quotations. Colonial breadstuffa and (allow are unchanged. A fund lms been started for the relief of distressed Irishwomen. The Queen has subscribed £200, and other large contribntions have already been received. Intelligence is to hand from Tunis, that certain Tunisian Government officials have forcibly expelled the workmen of Mr. Levy, a British subject from the estate at Enfida, the ownership of which has for a long time past been in dispute. After the removal of Levy's employees, the Tunisians installed a number of French workmen in their place, and the latter are now in possession of the estate. PABIS, December 13. In accordance with an understanding arrived at last month between Sir Charles Dilke, M. Gambetta, and M. Rovier, formal negotiations have been opened here between the French and English delegates, with a view to the conclusion of the Commercial Treaty. Sir Ch&des Dilke, the British Foreign Under-Secra-tar}', is not, however, present at the parleying which is now proceeding. The French ultramontane press have lately published articles in reference to the situation of the Papal See. The papers concur in stating that the Pope's position has become unbearable, and that the question .of His Holiness's departure from Rome h> now seriously mooted.