BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Southland Times, Issue 4630, 14 May 1883, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

'■- ■ — ♦ ;"•"' ' i■-■-■ ■■ ■ [BY BISOTRIO TELEGRAPH— COPYBIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, May 11. O'Brien and Doyle have pleaded guilty to complicity in the murders of Lord Cavendish and Mr, Burke. The 4ynamite conspirators were again chargedf at Bow street to-day, and all committed for trial. Received May 13, 1883, at 5.20 p.m. MAY 11. Consols remain at lOlf . New Zealand securities continue at the following quotations: — Five per cent 10-40 loan, 106 ; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 103£, ex div.; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 102| ; 4 per cent Inscribed Stock, 101£. Th« market rate of discount has risen to 3$ per cent, and is now £ below the bank rate. Australian breadstuffs continue quiet but steady at last prices, viz. : — Adelaidd whoat, ex warehouse, 50.1 ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 34s ; New Zealand wheat, «x store, 438 to 48s 6d. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,390,000 quarters, being an increase of 180,000 quarters during the week. The market for Australian tallow is dull at a decline of one shilling per cwt. Best beef is quoted at 425, and best mutton at 445. CALCUTTA, May 11. Intelligence is to hand from Cabul that an engagement has bepn fought between the Ameer's troops an# a large force of Mehel Shin warris, resulting in the complete defeat of the latter. KINGSTON (Jamaica), May It. News has reached here that the rebels in Hayti have blown up a bridge at Miragoane by dynamite and killed 200 Haytian troops who were operating against them. (SPECIAL TO PEESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, May 11. The proprietors of nine lines of vessels, employing a tonnage amounting in the aggregate to three million tons, support the scheme for making a second Suez Canal. The Standard Oil Works, Jersey City, U.S., have been struck by lightning, and half a million barrels of keroanne oil were burned. Six lives were lost in the conflagration. Sixfy thousand troops are now assembled in Moscow for the Czar's coronation. Sir John Pope Hennessy has sailed for the Mauritius to assume the Governorship. Prince Bismarck is reported to be quite exhausted by the violence of constant neuralgia. The Right Hon. M. Dodson's new bill compels landlords to pay outgoing tenants the value of their improvements to encourage tenants. Mr Howard, M.P. for Bedfordshire, will move its rejection.