TELEGRAPHIC. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 195, 10 August 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[bYELEOTEIO TELEGRAPH — OOPYBIGHT.] A NEW SMELTING COMPANY. PURCHASE OF~BANK NOTES. FORTY PEOPLE DROWNED. ARISTOCRATIC SLANDER OA&E. COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING. fONIIED PBESB ASSOCIATION ] London, Aug 9. The quarter of a million capital issued by the Australian Smelting Company is over-subscribed. It is intended to erect works at Illawarra immediately. The machinery will be capable of treating two hundred thousand tons of sulphide annually. Contracts are out for it, and a portion will be shipped on Friday. The imports for the past month show an increase, the figures being : imports, £3,292,G00 ; and the exports £2.160,000. Dr Grace has already scored two thousand runs this season m firstclass matches. Obituary — Lionel Oowen. A remarkable action for slander is being heard, which is causing a great stir m society. Mrs Jacoby, a member of the Badminton Hunt, charges the Dowager Lady Cowley with accusing her of writing and circulating obscene letters. Plaintiff asserts Lady Cowley herself wrote them. Purchases are being made of notes, drafts and deposit receipts of the City of Melbourne Bank. Several thousand pounds' worth were bought to day, at 17s 6d m the £1. An Edinburgh meeting agreed to the Australian Deposit and Mortgage Bank scheme, subject to the Bank repaying 30 per cent of the old deposit debenture debt m three annual instalments of ten per cent each, instead of six instalments of five per cent each. New York, August 9. An eight storey building b^ing erected m West Broadway collapsed, and eighty workmen engaged upon it fell to the basement, eighteen being killed. The cause ef the accident (vas the piling up of materials near the lift on each floor. New York, August 9. Seventeen men from the ship Prince Oscar landed at Philadelphia. Their ship came into collision with a vessel unknown, and both sank. Forty m all were drowned.