TELEGRAPHIC HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 8770, 10 March 1892, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN.

is (By Elboibio Tilmbajph.—OowraioHt] fPBB Press AsaoouTioit.l THE LIQUOR TRAFfNC. OTTAWA, March 9. (Beoetod March 10,1802. at 10.80 a.m.) The Canadian Government have appointed a Royal Commission to consider the question of the liquor traffic ~ THE CANADIAN "ELECTIONS. M} 1 ? • OTTAWA, Maboh 9. Twelve elections have resulted in the re- ' turn of fifty-four Conservatives and nineteen of M. Meroier's partisans. M. Mercier himself was eleoted, but warrants have been Issued for the arrest both of himself and the other members of his Cabinet in connexion with the recent scandals. M. Meroier will be expelled from the Legislature. NEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA. WASHINGTON, Maboh 9. News from South America reports that an outbreak of Indiana has occurred in Bolivia. They were assaulted by the troops and defeated with great slaughter, a thousand being killed. A SILVER BILL, WASHINGTON, March 9. Senator Bland's Silver Bill will probably pass both Houses. BROUGHT TO BOOK. ROME, March 9. A hundred and thirty-eight members of the infamous Malavita Sooiety have been arrested in Otranto. A WEDDING PARTY SURPRIBED. ATHENS, March 9. The Montenegrins attacked an Albanian wedding prooesslon on the frontier, killing and wounding nineteen persons.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON, March 9

The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom Is 3,268,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,200,000 quarters. Money is declining continuously owing to. the plentiful supplies. Three months' bills are discounted at lg per oent. The following are the latest share quotations:—Robert Campbell and Co., L 310«; National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, ss; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, L2 ss; New Z3alaud Trust and Loan Company, L 5.

THE GUELPH FUND. LONDON, Maboh 9. (Reoelved March 10, 1892, at 10.30 a.m.)

The Duke of Cumberland has agreed to receive interest on the Guelph fund on con' dition that his heir is reoognised as the Duke of Brunswick.

TAKEN CARE OF. LONDON, March 9. Mr Atkinson, member of the House of Commons, who has made himself notorious lately by his violent language and behaviour both in and out of the House, is confined in a lunatio asylum at Nice. ENGLAND'S DEFENCES. LONDON, Mabch 9. Lord George Hamilton stated fn the House that the Naval Construction Estimates would be limited thia year to the building of three men-of-war and ten torpedo boats. MISCELLANEOUS. LONDON, Maboh 9,. The German oomm'eroial fcre»t|es apply to. the British colonies under the most favored nation olauae, Mrs Osborne pleaded guilty to the oharge of perjury, and was sentenced to nine months' hard labor, Mrs Hargreaves appealed to the judge on behalf of her former friend for mercy. Snowstorms have been raging in England. FOUNDERED AT SEA. LONDON, March 9. The British steamer Messina foundered in the Gulf of Gasoony. Twenty-£,ve lives were lost. INTERCOLONIAL, By Bimotbio Tklaoiuph—OoPYßioßf ) [Pkb Pbjsss Association. I NEW SOUTH WALES MILITARY ESTIMATES. SYDNEY, Mabch 10. (Reoelved March 10, 1892, at 11.30 a.m.) The mi itary estimates have been reduced by L 50.000. THE DROUGHT. ' S'fDNEV, M4BPH 10. The drought is assuming sprious proportions In the west country round Wilcannia It is worse than the drought of 1888. BIG PRICE FOR CHAFF. SYDNEY, March 10. Qn aoQount of the devastation paused by rabbits chaff is selling at Lift per ton, VICTORIA'S RAILWAY REVENUE. MELBOURNE, Mabqh 10.

The Railway Commissioners have notified to the Government a scheme to reduoe the railway defloit. The details of the scheme are not published, but it is believed it oon. sists in new rates for passengers and good? and an all-round reduotion in the salaries of officers. BUST IV WHEAT. ADELAIDE, March 10. Or Gobbins, in the course of an exhaustive report which was read before the Boat-fa: Wheat Commission, predicts that ip from five to ten years that the rust pest would be a thing of the past. PERSONAL. ADELAIDE, March 10, Lady Oaslow has left for Hobart. GRUB JN THE. POTATO CROP. ADELAIDE. March 10. The potato orop in the north-west district has been attaoked by agrnb, whioh in many instances has destroyed the whole orop.