BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. COLONIAL SECURITIES AND TRUST FUNDS. DISTURBANCE IN THE COREA. THE INDIAN RICE CROP. UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 27. In the House of Lords, Lord Herschell stated he was quite willing to propose a new clause to his Liability of Trustees Bill, providing that trustees should be permitted to invest funds m colonial 4 per cents when the price of stock had reached 105, and m 3 and 3£ per cents when at an equivalent rate." It is stated that the Panama Canal lottery has proved a failure, and that only half of the'bonds have been taken up. The Archbishop of Canterbury has stopped the prosecution of the BisTiop of Lincoln, who had been accused of ritualism. Shanghai, June 27. Disturbances have broken out at Corea, and marines from French, Russian, Japanese, and American warships are guarding their respective Consuls at Seoul. Bombay, June 27. Owing to the monsoon rains m India being overdue* it is feared that the rice crop will be wholly ruined. The outlook is considered to be very serious.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXIV, Issue 13, 30 June 1888, Page 2
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