HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 8611, 3 September 1891, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[fir Electric Telbobapp,—Ooftbwhu , [Special to Frees Association.] general booth. CAPE TOWN, September 2. (Received September 3,1891, at 8 a.m.) General Booth has sailed for Australia. SUPERIORITY OF THE MAGAZINE EjFL?. BERLIN, September 2. German experts consider that the small calibre of the magazine rifles wiU minimise the advantage of artillery in battle, and that it will be necessary to invent a new description of cannon. dishonest OFFICIALS. OTTAWA, 2. . A warrant has been issued lor the arrest of Mr A. Seneoal, superintendent of the printing department, on a charge of illegal practices in connection with the Government Printing and Stationery Department Several witnesses have testified before the Committee as to tbs corruption existing in the printing bureau. FAST STEAMING. NEW YORK, September 2. Mails are now carried from Japan to Netf York in thirteen days. A NEW CABLE. NEW YORK, Sexisminsß 2. ' A new cable has been laid from the United States to Brazil. THE QUEEN VISITS GERMANY. LONDON, September 2, The Queen will pay a visit to the German Emperor at Stolzenfela, on the Rhine, next spring. She as entertained there by the King of Prussia iu 1845, A BIG STEAL. PARIS, September 2, The head of one of the public departments has been arrested on a charge of stealing L 40.000.

BARON HIRSCH’S SCHEME. BUENOS AYRES, September 2. (Received September 3, 1891, at 12.80 a.m.) The Argentine Press are hostile to Baron flirsch’s project of settling refugee Jews in that country. [Peb Press Association.] MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, September 2. (Received September 8,1891, at 11 a.m.) The total quantity of wheat and floor afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,948,000 quarters, and for the Continent 2,544,000 quarters. New Zealand Shipping Company's shares, L 4; Shaw, Savill, and Co., LlO. FLOODS IN IRELAND. DUBLIN, September 2. The River Barrow, in Leinster, has overflowed its banks, and submerged thousands of acres, A GERMAN LOAN. BERLIN, September 2, Germany is arranging to float a loan.