BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
EL&OTSIO TELEG PH— COR I’RIG BT -1 {[Special to Press Association.] A MISSING VESSEL. LONDON. August 3. The Lamorna, from Newcastle to Honolulu, is posted as missing. SIR O, CLIFFORD’S WILL.
Sir O. Clifford’s will bequeaths personalty amounting to £IB,OOO. To his widow he leaves an annuity of £IOOO. The estates are divided between the present Baronet and the other sons. DINNER TO MR WILSON. The members of the Provision Trade gave a dinner last night to Mr Wilson, Victorian representative, at which Sir A. Clarke, who presided, said that ignoran t writers had cast slurs on the Colonies because of their debts, forgetting that the money had been expended in developing the country, establishing dairy and other industries and rendering their position secure. Mr Wilson said that Victoria produced butter to the value of one million sterling annually. She possessed the largest dairy factory in the world. Ho was convinced that the consignees were honest. Cool storage must be provided in order to regulate the market and preserve uniformity of price. YACHTING.
During a squall off Cowes the American yacht Navahoe was disabled, and for a time was unmanageable. This accounts for her poor display in the contest for the challenge shield, THE NICARAGUAN REBELLION. WASHINGTON, August 3. News from Central America states that a general amnesty has been proclaimed in Nicaragua, and that the Leon party has resumed control of the Government. THE ARGENTINE. BUENOS AYRES, August 4. The rebels have killed the ViceGovernor of Santa Fc. A DIS ASTRO OS FIRE. MOZAMBIQUE, August 4.
News has been received that two hundred houses in Port Louis, Mauritius, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at thirty laca of rupees. MATABELELAND. CAPETOWN, August 4.
King Lobenguia, of Matabeleland, has withdrawn the Impi (chiefs) from the hills. AN APOLOGY. BANGKOK, August 4.
The captain of a French warship has, at the instance of Admiral Hutnann, in charge of the French squadron, apologised to the captain of H.M.S, Pallas for rudely ordering him outside of the limit of the blockade set up by France,
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10108, 5 August 1893, Page 5
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