LATEST SPECIAL CABLE NEWS.
London, January 21. The Victorian gunboats will be tried on the Tyne on "Wednesday and Thursday next, and, if successful, they will sail for their destination on the following Saturday. The health of Her Majesty the Queen is unsatisfactory, and she is unable to stand for more than a few minutes. «. The Russian paper Now I'remya, attacks Baron Macleay for favoring the projects of England in New Guinea. Queensland is offering to convert two and a-haif million bonds into inscribed stock. January 22. On arriving at Souakim, Colonel Stewar purposes advancing to Khartoum without an escort, replying upon his old friendship with the Arabs, now in rebellion. It is expected that Gordon Pasha will oppose the evacuation of Khartoum. For the Victorian Loan there were 554 tenders, covering £5,548,900. Those at £100 Is Gd will receive about 00 per cent. , j and those above that in full. There were four of the tenders which covered a million and three-quarters, at from par to two shillings and sixpence premium. It I is believed that the recent heavy shipments of gold to Australia reduced the price of thu loan by fully live shillings per cent. The official average for the loan is £100 3s. The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited have received a cable message from London as follows : — Tongariro, s.s., arrived at Rio Janicro (all well) on 21st inst. at 3 a.m., and resailed the same day at J. 2 p.m., refrigerator working satisfactorily and meat in prime condition. [The Tongariro's run to Rio is thus the fastest on record, having occupied only 20 days 7 hours.] January 23. The trial of the Victorian gunboats has been postponed. It is rumored that Lord Augustus Loft us will succeed the Marquis of Nornianby as Governor of Victoria. A large quantity of salmon and trout ova is to be shipped by the lonic to NpnZealand.
i The estate of Messrs Alexander and ! Henry Brogden has been liquidated priI vatety. I January 24. Messrs Young and Lark, Australian merchants, have sequestrated their estate, with time liabilities amounting to £280,000, and reported assets in the colonies representing 30s in the £. The Council of the London Chamber of Commerce has discussed the scheme for the federation of the colonies, as being one for the establishment of a great Trades' Union
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 4788, 28 January 1884, Page 2
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