ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 123, 26 May 1891, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, May 21. ; Tallow -Medium mutton 27s : ditto bee! 265.

Sinoo tho oloso of the wool sales the market has beon quiet. Sixty seven thousand six hundred bales have been sent forward to the manufacturing' districts diroofc, and the total quantity available at presont for tho next series is 250,000 bales.

Money is deolining owing to the continued influx of gold. . ; Three months' bills 4 per oent, ; % St. John's May 23. Both Houses of Parliament bare apprtvod of the measure enforcing (he modus viifendi with Franga in gonneotfou with tho fisheries whioh was introduced at the suggestion of Sir William Whiteway and other delegated who appeared at the b« ol the B«tiah Houao of Lords to protest againat Lord Kuu^ford's Bill. In, moying the, Beoond reading of his Bill at the end of last month, L,ord Knutaford. promise^ ' that> 4 (he Government would not proceed wish it in the fjoueo of Commons" provided (jhat the Newfoundland Parliament passed, a similar measure. On hearing this statement Sir W. Wbiteway oabled from London to his ooHeagueß at St. Johns to immediately introduce an. equivalent measure with the. above result. The operation of the Bill however, is reatrioled to .the present year.- • .:». !>')«.' f.'Mi-- I.'1 .' ••'•.. „ ' New Yobk; May 23. ■ ; The. sum of , 16,000 dollars, being the ( balanco of tho Amerionn Irish Fund, has been remitted to Arohbishop Oroke aiid AJr Jtiatin U'Oarthy to bo devoted to the relief of evioted teuants in Ireland,

; . Valparaiso, May 23. President Balmaceda's navy have oaptured Port Taltal, The Commercial Steam Navigation Company claim tho ownership of the steamer Itata, whioh they state the rebels unlawfully seized, and they contend that under the oirouinstancos the United States had no right to attempt to detain her at San Diegos.

St. Petersburg May 23, The Russian police are" levying heavy blackmail on rioK Jews.

„...„.. , Washington, May 23. , Mr J, S3, Blame s family, a.nd the medjoal men who are attending him 'den'tf the statemont made by the Him York HcraU that the Seoretary of St^e ft Q imheoile. I:''•■'■'■■:' ' ■':''•■'■'■■:' May 24, ■ ' The White Gqllyille, a 1 French 1 apple, is selling at' St. Petersburg tfrid' iloscoW for Half a 6rown a pieoe.'ahd London BaleaSttien believe that Australian apples ak" J of superior quality, and would* feton nearly «*qual Wicea'ia Kiissia 1 If the qualit* 7 ' were assured. ' ."f>v:-> ■> > *