BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6474, 26 November 1881, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Telegrams.] THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OP IRELAND. LONDON, Noy. 23. Earl Oowper, the Lord-Lieutenant o£ Ireland, made a speech to-day at Belfast, in which he took occasion to thank the landowners of Ireland for rallying to the support of the law. He added that he feared the discontent and illfeeling of the tenantry were deepseated. SHIPPING. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Arrived —Ship Rapido, which left Auckland on Aug. 17. THE PRESIDENT’S ASSASSIN. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. The trial of Gniteau, for the murder of President Garfield, continues. Witnesses are being called for the defence, and they are seeking to justify their belief in the prisoner’s insanity. THE NEW GOVERNOR OP NATAL NATAL, Nov. 23. The appointment of Mr W. J. Sendall, one of the Assistant-Secretaries of the English Local Government Board, to the Lieutenant-Governorship of this Colony, in succession to Sir Evelyn Wood, is viewed with much disfavour throughout Natal; and the Legislative Council at its sitting to-day voted six instead of the usual twelve months’ supplies, as a protest against Mr Sendall’s appointment.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, Nov. 23.

Console are 100|; Now Zealand securities are, 5 per cent 10*40 loan, 104; 6 per cent 1889 loan, 104 ; 4* per cent 1879-1904 loan, 100 f,

Australian and New Zealand bread* Bluffs, and Australian and Now Zealand tallow are without quotable change. At the wool sale to-day the catalogue comprised 9800 bales, and an animated demand was again experienced for the various lots offered.