LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4175, 8 December 1884, Page 3

LONDON.

/-:■: '>..,'■!■"' .December 2. Tho ship Bcrengaria, bound from Melbourne to Sunderland, struck on a rock and sank off the coast of Essex. ■ Eleven of those' on board.were rescued, btit the captain and Bixteen others are -missing. ■ ..;. ,-•'.:; .;, ; - ■'' December 4. -The .Australian' Squadron-will be augmented shortly by H M. sloop Gariuet; six guns, -M3O tons, at present lying at" Malta, where her furnace plates are undergoing repairs. ■':• '■"' ■'-' ■<?■■• ' ;: * ■■■"■ '' '■ The Chinese are claiming repeated successes over the l'Vench troops in Tonquin. Th&-Oriont steamers ■ will now call at Naples^'they haying ceased to visit, thorc in September last on; account of'the outbreak of cholera. .In consequence of the Australian station being, made' an Admiral's station, Commodore Erskiho will be selected for an early ooiriniand. •■ '■■■;••.■■. • . Two hundred thousand salmon ova will bp forwarded to Tasmania, in January, .'•The new Oriental Bank proposes to issue 88,000 £25 special shares on receiving £150,000.' The liquidator of the old bank will'assign tho : ass6ts. ' -^ A. ..'/.!::';.'■ ■ "December 6. . Twelve ■•• Chinese rhen-of-war have been orderedWtha;lsland of Tormosa to take part in the operations against the French .<;--- ; i-' ! -\- -■ - '■••- ; ' ■'■■