Latest Intelligence. BOULANGER'S WILL. MELBOURNE HARBOUR BOARD LOAN

Evening Post, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 15 October 1891, Page 2

Latest Intelligence. BOULANGER'S WILL. MELBOURNE HARBOUR BOARD LOAN

HEAVY EARTHQUAKE l"N CALIFORNIA. RUSSIAN TRADE WITH THE EAST. | SPECIAL.] (Received October 15, 8 a.m.) Paris. 13th Ootober.

The daughters of the late General Boulanger intend contesting ihd will under which Miss Griffiths becomes heiress to his fortune. (Received October IS, 10.45 a.m.) London. 14th October. Tho Melbourne Harbour Board loan of half a million at 4 per cent., minimum 95. has been successfully floated. The amount tendered was .£511,000, the average price being 8d above the minimum. Mr. Chamberlain, speaking in Wales, appealed to the oonntry to uphold the Protestant Church in Ireland. (Eeceived October 15, 11.10 a.m.) New York, 14th October. News has been received from Central America of an attempt to murder the President of Nicaragua. The heaviest earthquake) known for years has taken place at Napa, in California. A Masonic temple and other buildings were destroyed. London, 14th October. The Jews in Europe are opposing the Russian loan. One of the disadvantages of the Salonica mail route is that it is inf estod with brigands. St. Peteesbubg. 14th October. A Russian company is being formed to trade with Afghanistan, Bokhara, and Khiva. The Novoati says that thirteen million poasants are suffering from the famine. THE VIRCHOW MEDAL. A BLOODTHIRSTY PEOPLE. TERRIBLE GALE IN THE CHANNEL. THE LEADERSHIP OP THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. MR. FROUDE ON FEDERATION. PECULIAR CASE IN BERLIN. I UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION. | (Received Ootober 15, 10.20 a.m.) Beblin, 14th October. The gold medal subscribed for by the medical faculty all over the world was presented to Dr. Virchow. the celebrated German pathologist, on the occasion of his 70th birthday yesterday. Constantinople, 14th Ootober. j Tho Porte intends to totally disarm the Albanians in order to put a stop to the blood feuds in that country. Thirty battalions of troops will be needed to carry ont the operation. (Received October 15, 10.30 a.m.) London, 14th October. A fearful gale is raging in the English and Irish channels, and many small crafts have been wrecked, some with loss of life. The gale blew down Buffalo Bill's pavilion at Brighton, which was capable of holding 15,000 people. Sir M. Hicks Beach declares he neither oxpects nor desires the Leadership of the House of Commons. (Received October 15, 10.40 a.m.) London, 14th Ootober. j Mr. Fronde considers a Federal Parliament of the Empire is an absurdity, and I commercial union impossible. The bond between England and her colonies is not galling at present, and it is better not to speak of Federation. He supports tho suggestion for periodic contents between members of the British raco in industry, athletics, and culture. j The Roy. Alexander M'Kcnnal has been elected Secretary to the Congregational Union. Berlin. 14th Ootober. A remarkable case has been before the Berlin Courts, which discloses the existence of a system of sale and purchase of Court Titles and Orders. Two of those implicated were sentenced to nine and four months' imprisonment. Monte Video, 14th Ootober. Six persons were killed and Beven wounded in a popular outbreak this week. Fifty arrests were made. Madkid, 14th Ootober. Senor Canovas del Castillo, Spanish statesman, is ill with intermittent fever.