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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1989, 22 October 1886, Page 2

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HOME AND FOREIGN ".MOONLIGHTERS" CAPTURED. THE NEW HEBRIDES. COLONIAL FABRICS. (special to press association). London, Oct. 18. Shares in the Rapanga Gold Mining Company, Coromandel, are being allotted. The amouut of the capita! (L 80.000) has been subscribed tor threefold. Applications have been made on bihalf of tho museum attache Ito the Oxford University and the musoms at Saltaire (Yorkshire) and Newcastle for a portion of the exhibits of South Australia at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. A similar request has been received by the New South Wales hlxecu.tive from the Dublin, Saltaire and other museums.

Another gang of Moonlighters has been captured in Kerry. The Earl of Dunraven, Undersecretary for the Colonies, speaking at the banquet to Sir Anthony Musgrove, said that if France intended to withdraw from the New Hebrides, it would be more satisfactory if she named a date. He thought the time had come wh- n England could well afford to abandon the duties now levied on colonial produce. Th? Barcelona Gas Company h«i ordered several cargoes of Australian coal. Cholera is spreading in Hungary and Croat's. The St Petersburg Vedomosti urges that a Russian army should march on Varna. Oct. 19. The Times praises the Victorian marufactures, but considers that their textile fabrics hardly compare with those exhibited by New South Wales and New Zealand. The same paper gives great credit to South Australia for her display of wines, which are stronger and sweeter than those ol other colonies. Rangoon, Oct. 19. General Macpherson, commanding the British forces in Burmab, is at present suffering from a sharp attack of fever.

THE SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATION

ILLNESS OF THE CZARWITCH

(Reuter’s Telegrams.)

London, Oct 20,

The Socialists have announced their intentioa of carrying out their proposed demonstration on the 9th proximo, and despite the warring of rhe police they will adhere to all their plans. St. Petersburg, Oct. 19.

A report is current here to-day that th.e Grand Duke Nicholas the Czarwitclj., is sepiously ill.

THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. DEATH OF GENERAL MACPHEUSON. (REUTER’S Received Oct 21 at 10,30 p.m. London, Oct. 20 A meeting of the Colonial Agents General and members of the City Corporation was held at the Mq.ni- jon House to-day in connection with the proposed Imperiil Institute. The Lord Miyor announced tha • it woul? be suggested that the Institute should be erected upon lie site and conducted on the line-s of the present Co'onial Indian Exhibltio t. This was unanimously approved of by the meeting, anej. it was decided that fcae Lord Mayor sh >uld qonvene a public meeting to give effect to these proposals. Rangoon, Oct. 20.

General Sir Herbert Macpherson, Commander of the British Forces in Burmah, die' to-day of fever at Prome, on the Irrawady.