BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1765, 19 September 1885, Page 14

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Rkutkii's Tele'ojiams. > London, September l-i. Adelaide wheat shows an increase of 6d, and is quoted at 36s ex warehouse, and 34s 6d off the. coast. New Zealand wheat is.unchanged. At the wool sales 9600 bales were catalogued The market is" still dull. The lonic left Plymouth, for New Zealand, on tho afternoon ,of the 12th. The Rimutaka arrived at the same port, from Wellington on the evening of the 12th. Her frozen-meat cargo was in good conditioh.

September 15 Lord Randolph Churchill has be'en suffering from the effects of overwork, and has been ordered by his physicians to take six weeks' rest. The English Government announce th\t, so far as the purely commercial aspect of the question is concerned, England will support Germany in her pretensions to the Caroline Islands. Paris, September 15. The Government are in receipt of despatches from General De Courcy. commanding the French forces in Tonquin, stating that in consequence of the recent attack on the citadel at Hue by the Anamite troops, he (General De Courcy) has dethroned the reigning king, and placed Chan Dong on the throne in his stead. Berlin, September 15. The German Admiralty have engaged to present an equipment of a special squadron for service on the Atlantic stations. The vessels are to be ready shortly.

(Special to Press Association.)

London, September 15. The trans-oceanic race between the representative yachts of America and England was won by America.

It is considered likely that Germany will invite the Powers to define rules for annexation in the Pacific.