HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 9776, 5 August 1895, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[Sir ELkoTEiu [Pstt PBS& Association. ]

LONDON, August 4,

Shipping experts , inform Mr Valentine that the cool storage space Utilised last year for the conveyance of Australasian frozen meat and dairy produce, excepting poultry and babbits, .equalled 3,833,000 carcasses of Sheep, while the carrying bdpAclty of the vessels engaged in the trade amounted to §,500,000 carcasses if two and a-half trips annually were reckoned oh for each vessel. The experts assert that if meat and dairy producers unite for the better regulation of shipments and insist on ail vessels being fitted with modern machinery reduced freights will soon follow.

~ ThU CoUrt of Queen’s Dench has decided that the executors of Mrs Frances Tolle* mache are not liable lor probate duty in England on £112,000 invested iu New •Zealand upon which duty was paid in that colony. Lieutenant Charles E. Ensom has been appointed commander of the Orlando. Obituary : Mr Joseph Thompson, explorer. The United Counties Cricket Council has approved of the visit of an Australian eleven .next year. The number of test matches is to be limited to three.

The Geographical Congress will hold its next meeting at Berlin in 1899. The Prince of Wales yesterday opened at Southampton a new graving dock, which is the largest in the world. The Queen has invested Sir T. Fowcll Buxton, the new Governor of South Air: tralia, with the Order of St. Michael ari St, George. Tallow: Medium mutton, 21s 6d ; beef, 20s.

The English and Continental wheat markets are steady, and the American market is changing a little for the worse. At a sale of hides New South Wales heavy ox brought 4|-d. At the kauri sales 3,618 packages were offered, but there was little demand, and only 814 packages were sold. Threequarters and half scraped are unchanged, and pickings 29s 6d. The stock now con* sists of 2,131 packages.

TEHERAN, Annual? 4 Bread riots have taken place at Tabriz, In Persia. The bazaars were closed, and the troops dispersed the mobj twenty of whom were killed; The bodies Were taken to the Russian Consul, Whose protection Was invoked

ROME, August 4,

Birged Bros., bankers, of Genoa, have failed for twenty millions of lires, and warrants have been issued for the arrest of the principals. PARIS, August 4.

During the festivities at Douai in honor of M. Venillemin, manager of the mines, an Anarchist wounded him with a revolver and prepared to throw a bomb. The explosion was fortunately premature, and the assassin himself was blown to atoms, ten others being wounded. ST. JOHN’S, August 4.

Intense excitement has been caused in Newfoundland by the revelation that the four directors of the Union Bank have [ ? obtained] over two and a-half millions of dollar’s, representing nearly the whole amount overdrawn.

[A recent cablegram notified the arrest of four Mmisters and ex-Ministers of the Crown in Newfoundland—Messrs Thourboum, Harvey, Donnelly, and OrieVe—on a charge of falsifying balance-sheets when occupying the position of directors of the Union Bank of Newfoundland.]