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Evening Star, Issue 7195, 25 April 1887, Page 2

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MOjJETARi? ANjD COMMERCIAL. ; ?' LONDON, Apkil23. J&e&fcitd : _ quoted at 102J,-'

New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock is 10s lower, L9B. New Zealand 5 per cent. 10-40 loan is at 102$.

Colonial breadstuff's and tallow are unchanged from previous quotations.

THE MAILS. LONDON, April 23.

The mails per Orient steamer Orient (Melbourne, March 18) were delivered in London to-day via Naples,

THE IRISH LAND BILL. LONDON, AritiL 23, (Received April 25, 1887, at 1.35|t.m.)

In the House of Lords to-day the Irish Laud Bill was read a second time without a division.

THE TAUNTON ELECTION. LONDON. April 23,

The election to fill the vacancy caused by the lion. S. C. Allsopp's succession to the peerage as Baron Hindlip, took place at Taunton to-day, and resulted in the Hon. Percy Allsopp being returned by a large majority.

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LONDON, April 22. (ReoeWed April 25, is»7. at 1.15 a.m.)

The New South Wales photos exhibited at the Colindies have been ordered to be sent to the Adelaide Exhibition. Wheat is inactive. Prices are weaker. Old Australian, on spot, 37s ; new shipment, 365. An on-passage January parcel has been sold at 34s 3d, and a March-April shipment at 34s 6d—both in London. Obituary.—Lord Hervey Phipps, son of the Marquis of Nohnanby.

The Mercantile Bank of Australia are extending their operations to London, where they will offer 25,000 shares. LONDON, April 24. (Received April 25,1887, at 11.4 a.m.)

One hundred and forty members of the Order of St. Michael and St. George were present at a banquet at St. James's Palace yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge presided, and the Prince of Wales was present. A male, lion and two cubs have been purchased for Adelaide, President Cleveland refuses to allow himself "to be nominated for a second term. (Received April 25, 1887, at 2.16 p.m.)

Sir F. Abel delivered a lecture yesterday on the Imperial Institute; the Prince of Wales in the chair. The lecturer gave full details and explanations of the objects of the scheme.

Tho ' Standard' publishes a scathing denunciation of the manner in which the Institute has been advocated, and asserts that the approval of Her Majesty has been nullified by the want of confidence'which the public evince in the management. An assurance of the honesty of the scheme, apart from those who have it now in hand, would, according to the 'Standard,' at once restore public confidence, and lead to a deluge of donations, South Australian stocks have fallen 1 per cent.

Nova Scotia is again discussing the question of seceding from the Dominion of Canada. Postmaster - General Raikes announces that England will credit the colonies with L 50.000 on account of the postage receipts for 18S6, from the revenue accruing to Great Britain from the Indian and Australian mails. France is credited with L 54,000 as her proportionate share from the same source, and Italy with L 44.000.

INTERCOLONIAL.

[Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reutek's Telegrams.] AN EXCELLENT PROJECT. MELBOURNE, April 25. (Reoelved April 26, 1887, at 2 p.in ) Lady Loch has written a letter to the Mayor of Melbourne suggesting that a Jubilee fund should be formed to relieve

women in distress in this Colony. The Mayor, in reply, has promised his hearty co-operation. Lady Loch has also written to the Governors of New South Wales and other colonies suggesting the raising of funds for a similar purpose in each Colony.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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AUCKLAND, April 25.

A fit teen-roomed house at North Shore, owned and opcupiert 'by Mr James 1 Caldwell, was destroyed by fire last night. The sup-, posed cause was the bursting of a kerosene lamp which had been left alight. All the household were absent; but they had not been long away when Mrs Thompson, living next door, observed a flash through the window, followed by a loud report evidently caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp in the dining-room. In a remarkably short space of time the fire had broken through the lower portion of the building, and travelled with amazing rapidity. The damage done exceeds the insurance, which was LBOO on the furniture and L 550 on the house, both in the Royal office. . '

Thomas M !Callum was arrested yesterday charged with indecently assaulting a girl at Northcote. Be appeared at the Police Court to-day and was remanded for a week, bail being allowed.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 25. " Captain Daniel M'lntyre,. formerly commander of the ship Chrysolite and latterly of the steamer Wellington, died in Lyttelton of scarlet fever. H e was sixty years of age. Scarlet and typhoid ieyer are very prevalent in Lyttelton just now.