TELEGRAPHIC.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2894, 5 July 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reoteb’s Agency.j ■ •" ‘Commercial- ■ Consols have farther advanced to99|j New Zealand securities are quoted to-dky ks followss per cefit 10-40 loan, 106; 6 per,cent 188% loan, 106 ; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, Jo2£. Adelaide wheat ex store, remain)} at 51s, and New Zealand do 495.' -Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is, at 355. Australian 1 tallow !i; is unchanged at 42s fid for bestbeef, and 43s fid for best mutton. ~, _.... : v frfr Tie Prince' of! Wales's life in DangerIt r has • transpired 'that sihpli the regent visit of the Prince of to Bradford, dynamite 1 was i found to be concealed in some ,o£ the 'bridges over which "the Eoyal train passed. is ■believed that the.discovery reveals the existence of a plot ip; take the Prince’s Hfo. no;i Egyptian Affairs. ; The preparations which 1 haYe been ''proceeding, at the War Office;apd the Admiralty for the despatch of troops and vessels to .E&yptj are. pleted. "Work.at the Arsenal and Dock Yards has’ beeh pushed forward with all possible' speed, and an extensive force, including a siege, train .of. 72 guns is now ready to depart for Egypt Without delay, if required. ' The Government have decided that the mobilisation of the army reserve shall he proceeded with, in view of the possibility of that force being* to fill the place of the regular troops, which may be despatched to Egypt. It. has transpired that Arabi Pasha, as Minister for War, has made a proposal to the Council of MihiktefkthWt’ a 1 levy en masse should forthwith. be;made for the purpose of increasing the defensive force of Egypt. . , The work of fortifying Alexandria is now being actively proceeded with by the Egyptian authorities. : Mails. ; ■ v , , 1 - The Homeward mails, via Suez' and Brindisi, which left Melbourne/op May 23, were'delivered hero to-day.- The Australian mails, via Naples, Which left Melbourne ! oh May 30 per steamer Orient, were also delivered hero to-day. Frozen Meat. July,4. Half of the cargo of frozen . meat ex steamer Cuzco has been,sold. The carcases are not in first-class order, examination having 1 proved that ten per cent of them are affected by mildew!' ; ' .Irish Obstructionists. ‘ . In the House of Commons yesterday the disorderly and obstructive conduct of Mr O’Donnell, M.P. for Dungarvon, when the House was in Committee on Saturday last, was brought up for discussion; Mr O’Donnell, who, with other Irish members, was suspended on that occasion for obstruction, also made use of insulting language in alluding to the Chair. ’ The motion was therefore put and carried in the House yesterday that .hp should bo suspended ,for a fortnight. ■ •

.'ln consequence of the continued obstruction of the Irish Repression Rill the system of voting “urgency' 1 hag been revived and adopted, with a. view to expedite the passage of the Measure through the House. ScullingThe sculling match between Laycoek and Boyd for £2OO a side was rowed on the Tees to-day, and was won by. liaycock by fiye lengths.