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Evening Star, Issue 6505, 23 January 1884, Page 2

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j [By Elkotkio Tklkgiuph.—Copybioh*,) [Reuter's Telegrams.] MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, January 22. (Received January 23,1884, at 1.10 a.m.) Cousolb have declined to 101*. New Zealand securities are unchanged at last quotations. There are no changes to report in the markets for colonial breadstuffs and tallow. THE SOUDAN REBELLION. CAIRO, January 21. News to hand from the Soudan states that Baker Pasha, since his arrival, has baen parleying with the sheiks of the desert Arab tribes, and with considerable success, several of them who have been in rebellion having submitted to the Egyptian Government. THE VICTORIAN LOAN FLOATED. LONDON, January 22. (Received January 23,1884, at 1.25 p.m.) Tenders for the Victorian loan of four millions sterling at 4 per cent, and par minimum were opened to-day. The total amount offered was found to be L 5,550,000. Tenders at LIOO Is 6d will receive 9 per cent., and above that price in full. OBITUARY. LONDON, January 22. The death is announced to-day of Earl Grosvenor, heir to the Dukedom of Westminster; aged 31. BANK DIVIDEND. LONDON, January 22. The English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank have declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and placed 14 per cent, to the reserve. ['Argus' Special to Press Association.] LONDON, January 21, . (Received January 22,1884, at 1.16 p.m.) The Victorian gunboats will be tried on the Tyne on Wednesday and Thursday next, and if successful they will sail for their destination on the following Saturday. (Received January 22,1884, at 7.15 p.m.) The health of Her Majesty the Queen is unsatisfactory, and she is unable to Btand for more than a few minutes. The Russian paper 'Novevermya' attacked Baron Macleay for favoring the projects of England on New Guinea. Queensland is offeringtoconvert L 2,500,000 of bonds into inscribed stock. LONDON, January 22. (Received January 23,1884, at 3.50 p.m.) The official average for the Victorian loan ' is LIOO 3s. On arriving at Sovtakim Gordon Pasha and Colonel Stewart purpose advancing to Khartoum without an escort, relying upon their old friendship with the Arabs now in rebellion. It is expected that Gordon Pasha will oppose the evacuation of Khartoum. ■» . - INTERCOLONIAL. [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,] [Reuter's Telegrams.] SUPPOSED DOUBLE MURDER. MELBOURNE, January 23. (Reoeived January 23,1884, at 10 a.m.) A case of suspected robbery and murder is reported to have occurred near Geelong. Francis Beech, a farmer living at Rettavel, was found to have been murdered in his house, and his wife was in a dying state. The house had been ransacked throughout. No arrests have yet been made. NEW SOUTH WALES'S ESTIMATES. SYDNEY, January 22. (Received January 23, 1884, at 1.25 p.m.) The Estimatea were presented to Parliament last evening. They show a total estimated expenditure of L 7,710,000, against L 6,810,000 last year, being an increase of L 899.000. INTERPROVLNCIAL. (Per United Press Association.] RAPIER, January 33. A house at Porangahui, occupied as a dwelling and tailor's shop, wag totally destroyed by fire last night. Nothing was saved. The house was insured in the Union office for LQOO, and the stock and furniture for L3OO in the South British. The moneys voted by the Borough Counoil for the hospital were not for maintenance, but for the building fund. Thus the Colonial Under-Secretary was strictly accurate in his letter in stating that the Council had ceased to support the Hospital. ' WELLINGTON, January 23. A young man named Kimpernap, & recent arrival by the Lady Jocelyn, while in a state pf intoxication last night, fell through a bedrpom in the third storey of' the Star Hotel onto thp footpath befow—s distance of fully 40ft. lie broke hjs left thigh, injured his left ankle, and received Borne severe cuts on the head, but his injuries are not likely to prove fatal. The yacht Iris, whioh was competing in the regatta yesterday, is missing, Daring

the third-class race the master of the leading yacht Greyhound noticed that the Iris had disappeared off Point Halswell, but concluded that owing to the heavy gale blowing she had run into Kaw Bay. * Although the weather has moderated this morning the missing boat has not turned up. She was manned by four youths named J. and C. M'Keegan, Hare, and Bristow. The crew of the Iris have arrived safely. It appears that the peak and throat halyards were carried away, and she took shelter under Soames Island. She lost both anchors, and tUe crew beached her, coming home in the dingey. A man named Sullivan, formerly a boarding-house keeper at Wellington, has been arrested at Foxton on a charge of forgery. The crops in the Wairarapa district are suffering from the severe weather. At Woodvilie, a boy named Mechain, aged ten years, and son of a settler there, was drowned in a stream yesterday while bathing. He had gone out of his depth. GREYMOUTH, January 23. At the District Court to-day John White was tried for malicious destruction of property in the Catholic Chapel at Notown. The jury returned a verdict of insanity. His manner in Court seemed to justify the verdict. Whits has been on the Coast for eighteen years, and during all that time was always liable to fits of insanity. INVERCARGILL, January 23. At a meeting of the Wallace and Fiord Hospital Committee, held in Riverton, it was reported that a Chinaman suffering from leprosy was living in a hut about two miles from the town. The sufferer is said to have come from the Round Hill Diggings. Inquiries will be made by the medical officer as to the truth of the statement made, but in the meantime the Committee decided not to receive the patient into the hospital. It is reported that rust has made its appearance in some parts of the district, and the turnip fly is also said to have caused damage, in some cases necessitating resowing.