CABLE NEWS. '

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 25, 29 July 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. '

THE MAORI KING APPEAL CASE. [BT lIiIOTBIO TELKOBAI'n. — OOFTBIBKT.I [phess association.] Lohdon, 26th July. The Appeal Court has confirmed tho deoUion of Mr. Justice Mathew, o£ the Qnoen's Bench Division, in the case of the Bteamer Maori King, Ihat the bill of lading did not exempt the shipowners from liability in the event of the breakdown of a vessel's reI frigerating machinery. The London message of 12tk Jane, referring to the declaration of a dividend of 15s in the estate of the Bank of Adelaide, should have rood " Bank of South Australia," tho name of tlie Bank having boon altered in transmission. (Received July 29, 10.30 a.m.) London, 28th July. Herr Neumaycr, of Hamburg, will read a paper at tho Geographical Congress tomorrow referring to the nature of the ice cap at the South Pole, He suggests three meridian routes as the best adapted for the parpose of enquiry — either the meridian of some part of New Zealand, that near Cape Horn, or that of Kerguelen ißland. The death is announced of the Earl of VeruUun, aged BG. [special. I (Received July 29, 11 a.m.) London, 28th July. The Times says that during the last six months the private deposits in the Bank of England have increased by .£8,000,000. Great Britain now retains .£50,000,000 every year which was formerly employed abroad. Ihe Financial Times, referring to the Bendigo mines, expresses the opinion that some day Bendigo will vie with South Africa and West Australia.