HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 9387, 8 May 1894, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[Stkc'lAL TO £bESS ASSOCIATION.]

LONDON, May-7. (Received May 8,1804, at W.soft,m.>. The new Mr Walter JT. datej of Sy'dnejp, on Ist has been observed here, and is moving in a northeasterly direction. WASHINGTON, May ,7. The Government havo decided to build twelve twenty-five torpedo destroyers at a cost of half a'million sterling. ZANZIBAR, May 7. Major Owen has arrived at Mobubassa. He reports that after ejecting Kab Arega, a slave-dealer, from Urozo, a line of fort? was established between Albert Nyanza to with a view to preventing a renewal of slavery. The Soudanese he declares to have remained loyaL

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:. Vienna, may 6. (Received May' 8,1894,. at 10.50ia.ni.) Seven explorers who were entombed in a flooded cavejn Gratis have been rescued after eight days' confinement.

(JAPE TOWN, May 7.

' Tho Times' asserts that in consequence of the warning .scqit the emigration of Australian working men to (Jape Colony has virtually ceased'. LONDON, May 7. (Received May B,lßJtf, at I,'p.ni.)

During April the imports increased by £2,900,000 and the exports by £94,000. An explosion has taken place at the Cordm ('j 1 Cordite) at Waltham,, a thousand jars of 'nitrate and sulphuric acid being exploded. Every window in tlVe town \ps broken. Four persous wero killed and thirty injured. At the wool sales there was good competition, and prices remained firm at opening rates. Tho Toi-tois brand (New Zealand) realised 9'gd per lb.