HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10269, 11 February 1899, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press- Association—By Elsotrio - TefepJHjfc—Copyrielrt. THE STEAMER CHINA. LONDON, February 9. The Bfoajnor China, which went ashore and_ ras aiterward- floated off the Perim reef. 1 as left Pertln for London, convoyed by the Urn steamers; THE LONDON PLASTERERS. The London plasterers have withdrawn the demand for the enrolment of foremen in tne union. ENGLISH COAL FOR RUSSIAN RAILWAYS. Owing, to the Jugh price of coal from the Donets coai-fieiojs. the Russian Government are placing largo orders in England for the us© of the.Russian railways. CESSATION OF THE PLAGUE. Advices.are to hand tnafc the plague at Swnarkand is dying out, after causing enormous ravages, including tho deaths of seventy •doctors. THE HOOLEY CASE. .Earls De La Warr and Albemarle are refunding the gifts made them by the ex-iniUkmaire-Hooky as directors of the companies in which he waa interested. The money will be apportioned amongst the ooinpanies concerned. AN IMPERSONATION FRAUD. A Reserve-man named Fuller has been sentenced to "twelve months' imprisonment for tho impersonation of a dead pensioner/ •whose pay he .has been drawing* for eight ■years. FRANCE'AND THE NEW HEBIRDES. / February 10 Mr Chamberlain informed the Aborigines' Protection Society that Great Britain is pressing France to subject her citizens in the New Hebrides to the same restrictions in regard/ to the sale of firearms and liquor as British residents. The Society is urging the international extension to the Pacific of the humane policy practised by Great Britain since 1884. GORDON'S PALACES REBUILT. CAIRO, February 9. - Gordon's palaces at Khartoum are "being rebuilt for __itchener. SUPPLIES FOR THE FRENCH ARMY. PARIS, February 10., M. de Freycinct has discontinued the use of preserved meat supplied to the French army by the French colonial factories. Sir H. Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland in London, states that this will injure the Queensland cattle export trade to New Caledonia. COLONIAL BOKROWING. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN. \ United Press Association—By Electrio Telsgraplw^Jopiyrfsrht. LONDON, February 9. The tenders for the New Zealand loan were I opened to-day. The total amount tendered I for was £3,026,000. Tenders at £96 8s get 37 per cent. The Victorian one million six hundred | thousand three per cent, loan was placed on themarket, and the minimum fixed at 95. lenders will be opened on Thursday next. February 10. the New Zealand loan was Tr«_T«, A *^ ndicato tendered for £750,000 at £96»88. FTJI__NESS AFTER EATING fsel blow. ouHrt^L^Zg^^™*' fcohng-_f weiebton chest after DON'T NBEAECT IT. „ii by»tbe medicine you tli^ZJ^ c . ,a^-lm^ike^^^ Don't try it. -_?srfe <***""•« of otbert J£_f BYS . WAH OO pasiti-ely cures tbe 7m£- C %°L ln * Bborttt »». Ozxe bottle cures, 2a 6d everywhere. _t£ ♦ QLII^. II iOT ftU P B "'* lawiuable for from ** "****»** or post free* LOASBY'S V WmMmwmmp