ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9980, 3 May 1895, Page 2

ENGLAND.

London, May 1. The Duke of Orleans Is worse. The steamer Thibet has been floated off, and canal navigation is again free.

The coroner's jury found tbat the Elbe disaster was due to gross negligence by the mate of the steamer Crathle.

The total quantity of wheat and flonr afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,440,000 quarters. The American visible supply of wheat is 80,400,000 bushels.

At the wool sales prices are irregular, and range from par to $d lower for crossbred and merinos, The French buyers are quiet.

The Bank of England has reduced it a charge for inecribing and managing colonial loana by £100 per millioD. The saving to two of the Australian colonies alone is estimated at £4000 each per

annum.

The committee of the Stock Exchange has suspended for four years Coleman and May, brokers, associated in the scandals which led to the resignation of Mr May, late cashier of the Bank of Upland, and father of the broker May,

Wool ia still suffering from the effects of the undue depression ia the colonial markets last year, and it is feared there will no improvement nntll tbe stocks in hand of direct! purchasers are farther tedaced.

The jury in Wilde and Taylor's case disagreed, and were discharged. Bail was, however, refused accused.

The United States and. other Powers advise Great Britain to withdraw tbe blockade of Coriuto on Nicaragua offering to pay the £15,000 demanded in a fortDight. It U believed EDgland will accept the proposal.

New Zealand 3J per cent inscribed stock is quoted at 104|. The rise is attributed to the Hon. Mr Ward's statements regarding the colony.