ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8332, 8 April 1889, Page 2

ENGLAND.

(Received April 6, 1 p.m.;

London, April 5. At a meeting of shareholders iv the Bank of Australasia Mr T. Sutherland, M.P., chairman of, the Board of Directors, stated that the hank did not expect to expect toexperience any difficulty arising out of advances on land in Melbourne.

Two hundred and eighty crofters have been despatched to Canada by the Assisted Emigration Society.

Her Majesty the Queen is much improved in health hy her recent trip to Biarritz. Before leaving the latter place Her Majesty made a donation of 3000 francs to the poor of Biarritz.

The Pall Mali Gazette has been cast in £1500 damages in a libel action,

(Reoeived April 6, 1.20 p.m.) Consols 98J, ex div. ; New Zealand _ per cent inscribed stock 103J, ex div.

Australian wheat, 40s 6d, market depressed ; New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex store, 39s 9d, market weaker.

TaUow is firm ; best mutton, 26s 6d to 275 ; best beef, 26s to 26s 6d. Ox hides, 3Jd to 3gd per lb. Kauri gum is quiet, but the market is steady.

Copper is at £42 ss, and the market is I recovering. I Herman beet sugar, 17s 3d; Java sugar, 18s 3d. No. 1 be9t Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. on the Clyde, 44s Dd. (Received April 7, 6.25 p.m.l April 6. An Australian wheat cargo has been sold at 37s 3d. At the nautical inquiry into the circumstances connected with the ship Sir Walter Raleigh going ashore on the French coast, the Board found that the master of the vessel was to blame for the accideft . and suspended his certificate for three isonths. After the e_* wation of the Easter holidays Sir Hercui^S Robinson will return to the Cape. ! Sir Francis Dillon Bt? U, the New Zealand Agent General, has £one to Paris, where he will remain until after the opening of the exhibition. Mr C. T. Ritchie, President of **.he Local Government Board, has appointed* a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Vaccination Act.

The Sugar Bounties Convention will reassemble on Miy lst.

In his letter to the Royal Geographical Society Stanley describes the regions through whicli be passed on bis march to the relief of Emm Bey. The tribes in. habiting the forests, he says, are dwarfs in stature, and cannibals. They are very numerous, and are great experts in the use of poisoned arrows.

At the meeting of shareholders in the Bank of Australasia on Friday Mr Thos. Sutherland, one of the directors, explained that the advances made by the institution in Melbourne were prudent, arid were made without referents to the enhanced value to which land went during the recent boom. Statistics published by the Board of Trade show that the value of the imports and exports foi* the last quarter was thirteen aud a' half millions in excess of the corresponding period lost year. Java sugar is quoted at 19s. The present wool series close on May Bth. Obituary— The Duchess of Cambridge. At the Leicester spring meeting to-day the Prince of Wales Stakes of 11,000 soys for the first horse was won by the Duke of Portland's Donovan, with Mr Abington's Pioneer second, and Mr Vyner's Mintho third. This morning the Leicester police received a letter to the effect that during the races it was intended to assassinate his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.