HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 9471, 16 August 1894, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[By Elkctkio Telegraph.— Coi-yrigut.] [Per Press Association.]

LONDON, August 15,

(Received August 10,1891, at 11.15 a.m.)

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for tho United Kingdom is 2,750,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,230,000 quarters. Share quotations: U.S.S. Company; £8 ; New Zealand Shipping Company, £S 6b.

TheTalnurs "meat arrived in. excellent condition, but there is no room in tho stores for it.

Mr Young, agent of the South Australian Government, is convinced, as a result of his inquiries into the German restrictions against colonial meat, that they will not prevent a good trade from being established.

Tho Congo State, under its treaty with France, renounces the territory leased to Great Britain, and makes a complete surrender to France. .-.;.■

An explosion occurred, to-day in the Newcross Post Office, and is believed to have been caused by a bomb.

Four hundred French and Italian Anarchists have arrived in England. Numerous detectives, under Inspector Molville, are watching the London resorts of these gentry. BERLIN, August 15. The cholera is increasing in Eastern Germany

HOME, August 15,

The police have seized au infernal machine in this city. It was intended to blow up the Premier's house in revenge for the coming execution of Santo. WASHINGTON, August 15. John Quincey Adams, a prominent Democratic leader, is dead.

rSPECUL to Press Association.] VIENNA, August 15, (Received August l(j, 1894, at 11.5 a.m.)

A block of warehouses at Fiamc, an Austrian seaport, have been burned, the damage being set down at £300,000.

LONDON, August 15. American stocks in London and Berlin are rising largely. Owing to the demand from the provinces and the shortage of tho American supply, the glut of frozen meat is clearing. The Congo State has granted the demand of the French lor access to tho left bank of the river, which will permit of a large expansion of trade. The Loudon Press regard the treaty as a humiliation to British diplomacy.