HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11877, 26 April 1904, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. APPOINTMENT OF A CONSUL. LONDON, April 24. M. Bocufve has been gazetted French Consul at Auckland. A DISPUTE SEI PLED. There is unbounded enthusiasm at St. Johns, Newfoundland, over the French shore settlement. LONDON" BANK OF AUSTRALIA. The report of the London Bank of Australia for the last year shows that the profits were £104,446. A dividend of 54 per cent, was declared on preference shares, and 2_, per cent, on ordinary shares, and £14,316 was carried forward. Tlie transferable deposits total £1,587,000, other deposits £2,354,000, cash investments £1,558,000, and bills £3,310,000. AN ANCIENT CITY TO BE EXCAVATED. A comnlete excavation of the buried city of Herculaneum has been decided upon. [The ruins of the buried city of Herculaneum are situated about two-thirds of a mile from the Portici station of the railway from Naples to Pompeii. The small part of the city, called "the new quarters," which has been restored to the light of day was discovered in the present century. But the most important works were executed in the last- century; and of the buildings then explored at a great depth, by means of tunnels, none are visible except the theatre. With regard to its earlier history, nothing is known.]