BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4210, 11 October 1886, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Electric Tjjl^^pb—Copyright

[Rbuxejb’s Agency.]

COMMERCIAL-

MONETARY.

THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

AQUATICS. BURMESE DIFFICULTY.

ANARCHIST PLOT.

{Received Opt. JJ, 1.30 a.m,) Loucou, Opt. 8;

The total quantity of wheat a£opt for the United Kingdom is 1,620,000 quarters, or 30,000 quarters less than last week.

Now Zealand mutton is selling from id to 4£d per lb. Three per cent consols are at IOOf. New Zealand securities — per cent 5-30 loan, 99|; .$ pep ,<jeajt J.O-40 loan, 100| ; 4 per cent inscribed ptocjc, 98. i

Adelaide wheat, ex store, 35s j Adelaide flour 24a. New Zealand wheat, highest, 28s ; lowest, 28s. Beef tallow, 23s ; mutton, 15s Gd, Oct. 9.

• The jlmpeippl jfnstitjjte will be opened next year op the site of the present Colonial and Indian Exhibition, until a permanent holding phpll have been erected.

The “ Daily News ” to-day publishes an article in which it states that Government are preparing an Irish scheme on the basis of providing a national council for eaefa of tb° four provinces—Ulster Leinster, Munster, and Connaught. The first beat of the Welsh Harp Handicap was rowed on the Thames to-day, when Wallace Ross and i?erfern# beat Neilson, who consequently is out of the £nal heat. ~ Dot. 6. Jtfews has been received that aforce of 3000 Shans have burned and looted the town of Klvcnbapa. Strong rein-

forcemeats were despatched from Man-' daisy, and succeeded iu driving the rebels to the bills.

Vienna, Oct. 9.

An anarchist plot to set fire to the timber yards and public buildings of this city has been frustrated by the authorities, and a quantity of dynamite has been seized.