BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10217, 11 December 1893, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[or sLBOTKto TsmeßAP3.-aoPTEiem.l [Special to Press Association.] MELBOURNE BOARD OP WORKS. LONDON, Dec. 8. A London syndicate is prepared to make an immediate advance to the Melbourne Board of Works of .£200,000, pending the raising of the <£’Boo,ooo loan to bo issued early in the year, provided the security given ia quotable on the London stock exchange. The syndicate will not accept deposit receipts aa security because they are not quotable. mr’b. s. smythe. Mr E. S. Smythe is lying ill at the Savage Club of pneumonia. VICTORIA AND THB BANKS. The dispute between the Victorian Treasury and tho Associated Banks respecting tho loan raised in 1891 waa referred to Mr Childers, who awarded the Government .£2IOO. MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. The first sea-going ship passed through the Manchester Canal, and reached Manchester to-day. THE PACIFIC CABLE. Mr Audiey Coote will attend the Paris Cable Conference. He states that his Company will be prepared to lay a through cable, when sufficient money has been raised to take the line aa far as Samoa. JABEZ BALFOUR. Arrangements are being made to extradite Jabez Soencer Balfour. BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 9. Congress has sanctioned the extradition treaty with Great Britain, which affects Jabez Spencer Balfour. TREATMENT OF INEBRIATES. LONDON, Deo. 10. Lady Somerset and others are urging the Government to transfer & hundred habitual inebriates from prisons for the purpose of maintaining farm homes. THE HARNESS CASE. Mr C. B, Harness, President of the Medical Battery Company, in addressing the Coinpany, said he courted the fullest enquiry into the charges levelled against him, and was confident that he would gloriously vindicate his character. HAWAII. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. It is reported that the President has sent orders to the United States Minister in Hawaii, reversing the policy for the restoration of the monarchy. HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION. PARIS, Deo. 8. A Parisian woman patient in the late Dr Charcot’s institute fired three times with a revolver, and wounded a doctor. A plea has been raised of hypnotic suggestion. PIRACY. , Dec. 9. The trial of the brothers Eodrique for piracy and murder has concluded, and each has been sentenced to death. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. OTTAWA, Deo. 8. Sir J. Thompson is willing to enter into a reciprocal reduction of duties with the United States, provided it will not affect the allegiance of Canada to Great Britain. THE OPIUM TRADE. CALCUTTA. Dec. 9. The Chambers of Commerce in Bengal have taken evidence which goes to show that £300,000,000 will be required to meet all claims in the event of the abolition of opium produce, and even that will not appease discontent or prevent disaster. SOUTH AFRICA. CAPETOWN, Dec. 10. King Lohengula has reached tho Bubi river, where he is lying ill. He has abandoned the idea of crossing the Zambesi, and is said to he anxious to come to terms.