HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 8609, 1 September 1891, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

{By Elkotbio Tbitobal'h.—OoctMghl > [Pbh Pbkbb AssoouTMur.] INTERESTING TOTsPIRITUALISTS. LONDON, August 31. Mrs Besant announces that since Madame Blavatsky's death she has received letters from the spirit world similar to madame's. SUNDAY WORK AT HONGKONG. LONDON, August 31. Lord Salisbury has disallowed the ordinance forbidding shipping work on Sandays which was passed by the Hongkong Executive. MR PARNELL'S LATEST DEMAND. LONDON, August 31. Mr Parnell demands that Liberals shall give a pledge to release political prisoners if the Liberals return to power. ARE THEY SIMPLE MANOEUVRES? CONSTANTINOPLE, August 31. Servia and Bulgaria are both mobilising heavy bodies of troops on their frontiers for the purpose, it is alleged, of manoeuvres. The Porta advises Servia to manceuvre in the interior of the country. There is an uneasy feeling about the meaning of these preparations. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. HONGKONG, August 31. News from Japan states that on August 16, during a typhoon at Koebe, near Hiogo, 250 Japanese and foreigners were lost; while at another town forty-five were killed by the falling of houses. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, August 31. {Beoeived September 1,1891, at 11.80 a.m.) Wheat is firm in the provinoial markets. It in selling »* 48a to 60s. The market rate of discount has risen to 2 per cent, owing to an impression that there will shortly be a scarcity of money. Silver has fallen id. PERSONAL LONDON, August 31. Captain O'Shea is about to marry an English lady.

FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. LONDON, August 31.

By an explosion in the Malago Colliery, Bedminster, several miners lost their lives. THE CRICKET CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, August 31. The cricket season is now over, and Surrey has again secured the oounty championship with 10 points out of a possible 16. A BOOM IN RAILWAY STOCK. LONDON, August 31. There is a boom in American railway stooka both in London and New York.