HOME AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 19 November 1887, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright AUSTRALIAN RUBIES. ANOTHER ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. TIIE GOVERNMENT OF Fill. SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION London, Nov 16. The syndicate that purchased tho Bluespur and the Gabriel’s Gully mines, hesitate to float a company unless the outside promoters abandon their claim for 20,000 shares. The shares of the Broken Hill Mining Company are quoted at a premium of 10s. Pearson’s Australian rubies, undor a carat in weight, are selling freely at the of rate 35s per carat, the heavier stones from £3 to £6 a-piece, the average being £2 per carat.

The Iloyal Geographical Society join Sir Graham Berry in a deputation to wait on Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, urging the English Government to contribute toward defraying the cost of an Antarctic! expedition. lI.M. ship Calliope has been attached to the Australian station.

W. Nealo, Coventry solicitor, has been sentenced to 12 years for embezzlement. The Morning Post advocates Victoria governing Fiji, the othor colonies assisting by contributing to any deficit that may accrue. Sir Michael Hicks-Boach states that an affection of the eyes prevents him re-joining the Government.

Samuel Taylor, driver, and Robt Davis, firmen of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire train, have been acquitted of the charge of manslaughter preferred against them in connection with tho recent collision at Hexthorpe Junction, near Doncaster, whereby live people wore killed.