BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2673, 13 October 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

j [Redter’s Agency.j MoneyLondon, Oct 11. Consols have declined to 99. New Zealand securities are unchanged. The market rate of discount has advanced to par cent. There has been no change in the Bank rate. WheatThe market for colonial breadstuffs is quiet at unchanged quotations, viz, Adelaide wheat, ex store, 58s ; New Zealand ditto, 565; Adelaide flour, ex store, 435. MeatThe frozen beef brought per steamship Orient from Melbourne was sold at Smithfield market to-day and realised an average of s£d per lb. The meat was in excellent condition. Tallow. Australian tallow is firm at 41s 6d for best beef and 45s for best mutton. The Czarewitch. The race for the Czarewitch Stake was run for to day, at Newmarket, and resulted as followsMr J. R. Keene’s Foxhall, 1; Lord Bradford’s Chippendale, 3; Duke of Hamilton’s Fiddler, 3. Fighting. Paris, Oct. 10, News has been received that a battle has been fought at Testour in Northern Tunis between the Tunisian troops and Arab insurgents. The engagement was of a sanguinary character, and resulted in the complete rout of the Arabs.

American SenateWashington, Oct. 10. At a meeting of the Senate to-day, Bayard, a Democrat, was temporarily elected President of the Senate by 34 votes to 33. The Democrats are now obstructing the admission aof new Republican Senator. Obituary. Vienna, Oct. 10. Baron Von Haymcrlc, Austro-Hun-garian Minister for Foreign Affairs, died suddenly to day.