BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 7925, 30 July 1886, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[SI MLXOTBIO TMLJBOBAPH OOPyBIBMT.H [EkUTBB’s TeLEGBAMS.] [Eeceived July 29, at 2.10 p,m,J MAILS. LONDON, July 28. The mails from Australia and New Zealand, per Alameda, (Auckland, June 22), were delivered to-day. INTENSE COLD. ’ NEW TOEK, July 28, Intelligence is to. hand from Labrador that intensely severe weather has lately been experienced, there. Three thousand Indians and Esquimaux have perished from hunger and cold. An immense snow block has occurred in the thickly populated part of the Peninsula, and 10,0«0 Indians , are, it is beared, cut off from assistance, and must also perish. IBMeived July 29, at 10 p.m.| COMMERCIAL. LONDON. Jntv 28. Consols are 10s lower, and are now at 101 f. New Zealand securities 5 per cent 10-40, loan, 103|; 4| per cent 1879-1904 loan, lol| ; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 98- Bank rate, 2£ per Breadstuffs.—Adelaide wheat, ex bistore, per 4961 b, 34s 6d; New Zealand per 4961 b, 28s to 32s 6d, according to grade; Adelaide flour, -ex. store, per 2801 b, 245. Tallow.—-Australian fair average quality beef, per cwt, 25s ; mutton, per cwt, 275. . [Beceired July 90, at 12.50 a.m.J DREADFUL SUFFERINGS. NEW TOBK, July 28. Later accounts from Labrador show that the Indians have been reduced to such straits that they have been compelled to eat their dead. HONG KONG, July 28. A convention has been signed at Pekin between the British and Chinese Governments, under which China formally recognises British rule in Burmah. [Special to Pbess Association.] [BeeeiTsd July 29, at 2 25 p.m.V LONDON, July 28. The Prince of Wales is prepared to ' accept the Executive Presidency of the Permanent Colonial Exhibition, if the pi esent guarantees are renewed and a yearly grant is made for maintenance by the Colonies. The P. and O. Company are having another Steamer built at Belfast, similar to the one that is to be built at Greenock. Truth states that Mr Gladstone will go on h. yachting cruise round the Irish and Scottish coasts. Sir Alexander M‘Kenner has been elected Chairman of the Congregational Union for the ensuing year. Further intelligence from Labrador shows that a. pitiful state of things is existing . there. Up to the present three thousand five hundred deaths have occurred from starvation, and fully fifteen thousand lives are in peril from the same cause. The Indians are eating the bodies of the dead, and to add to the horrors of the situation, a large number of bears, which have become ravenous for want of food, are making raids,on the settlements, devouring human beings. News is to hand from Tinnevelly, a town in the Presidency of Madras, that daring a performance the theatre took fire, and was completely destroyed. A hundred of those present were killed in the panic that | ensued. 1 (BMefoad July 29, at 10.30 p.m.' LONDON, July 29. | A shocking tragedy is reported * from Penzance, Cornwall. A man named James Hawke, who recently returned from Australia, mortally aooj a neighbour by shooting them. Ht>4hen committed suicide. Baron de Lesseps’ report on the

Panama Canal stows a balance of two hundred and forty-one million francs. He pledges himself to open the canal in 1889.