CABLE NEWS. MURDER OF A RUSSIAN OFFICER. PROPOSED CHINESE LOAN.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 8, 9 July 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. MURDER OF A RUSSIAN OFFICER. PROPOSED CHINESE LOAN.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRiaHT.) LUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION."! London, 7th July. Tho World suggests that Mr. Ceoil Baikes should be appointed Governor of New South Wales. Miss Amy Sherwin gave her first oonoort in the presence of the Prinoesa of Wales and a brilliant patronage. The concert was a great suooess. Ths British North Borneo Company has taken over the island of Labuan and the British colony situated in tho bay on the north-west ooast of Borneo. St. Petersburg, 7th July. Colonel Martinovio, cousin of the Grand Dulce Nicholas and commander of his body guard, has been killed at Cettinjo, in the market plaoe. The deed is attributed to private vengeance, and tho people have lynohed his murderer. Pekin, Bth July. The Chinese Government are thinking of borrowing thirty million taela in American Bilver for the purpose of constructing a railway to Manchuria, an extensive region situated on the north-eastern portion of the Empire. Washington, Bth July. The Silver Conferenoe has agreed to four and a half million ounces of Bilver being purchased monthly.