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Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1043, 20 July 1894, Page 6

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Baron Schroder is negotiating with Mr Stewart, official receiver, with a view to settle the action against the old directors of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. While the Prince of Wales was re, : turning from Wales after opening the Eisteddfod, a drunken man forced his ..vay to the carriage and uttered threats of violence. Lord Pen ryhn, who was accompanying the Prince, knocked the man down, and then gave him into custody. The Britannia has beaten the Vigi lant six times in succession. A dissolute abbe named. Brumeau has been sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a cure. He is also suspected of other murders. Ay Federal judge of the Argentine declares that the treaty of extradition with Great Britain does not apply to Jabez Balfour, It is reported that the Bank of New Zealand issue has been underwritten at lOlf net, the proceeds to the bank being par. Messrs Weddel and Bruce visit Paris and Antwerp to arrange for the introduction of colonial frozen meat. . The earthquake shocks at Constantinople have been renewed and many buildings wrecked. One hundred and fifty lives have been lost, '

. i The Monowai's mails were forwarded by steamer to Portland, Oregon, and were expected to reach New York on July 18. i The underwriting of the Bank of ? New Zealand is completed. A condi- 1 tion is made for the issue, of stock instead of shares. The issue is at 101|. < The bakers' strike in Lisbon has i collapsed. ... '. The liabilities in the bankrupt estate of Lord Francis Hope are now set down at L 658,000. The debtor admits losing ■ L 70,000 in gambling, L 22.000 in a theatrical venture, and L 46,000 by assisting friends. It is announced that China accepts England's mediation with regard to Corea. Seven vessels from New Zealand are unable to complete the discharge of their cargoes of ftozen meat owing to want of cool storage. Cholera has broken out at St Petersburg and is spreading to an alarming extent. The disease has also broken out in the military barracks, and is raging with groat virulence among the soldiers. The Cholera is also spreading into Germany. At the rifle meeting at Bisle}', Scotland won the Elcho Challenge Shield by five points. Prendergast, the murderer of Mr Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, has baon executed. Russia is building five warships at Sebastapol, and extending her dockyards there. Fifty deaths daily are reported from cholera in St. Petersburg. It is feared that the settlement of the American strike will increase the overstock of meat in London. Sir G. Grey returns to New Zealand by the Gothic in October. The son of the Duke and Duchess of York was christened on Tuesday. The Archbishop of Canterbury performed the ceremony, and the Queen was amon£T those present. Owing to repeated slights atthehands or the Nationalists, Mr John Morley is likely to resign the chairmansbip of the Irish Land Acts Committee. The delegates to the Canadian Conference have accepted the. invitation of the Mayor of Liverpool to attend a banquet in August. The contents of a military waggon exploded in the streets in Chicago, killing a number of soldiers and civilians. A cyclone in Upper Bavaria destroyed the harvest and caused immense damage to buildings. The Czar has abandoned his intention of being present at the army manoeuvres at Smolensk, in consequence of apprehension that the Nihilists will endeavour to turn the occasion to account. It is reported that 40,000 deaths from cholera have occurred at Canton. The epidemic is spreading along the coastal cities.