TELEGRAPHIC. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 230, 2 October 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[byeleotrio telegraph—copyright.] NEW CABLE STEAMER. AFFAIEB IN~THE EAST. [UNITES PBBBB ASSOCIATION. 1 London, September 30. The tender of Dunlop and Co., Glasgow* for the New Zealand cable steamer has been accepted. The price is £30,000. The vessel is to be completed m six months. The Hull Municipal Committee recommend the building of cold stores at an estimated cost of | £40,000. Btorage will be provided j for 40,000 sheep and 300 cattle. Bidding at the wool sales continues animated, and the advance has been maintained. Wheat has »isen Is per quarter, but the market is weak. October 1. The New Zealand Shipping Company carries forward the sum of £4,449. Tokio, September 80. Popular discontent at the withdrawal of the Japanese from the Liatoog Peninsula is increasing. Plots are on foot against the Ministers. London, September 80. Insurance premiums of over 10 guineas per cent, are being paid on the ship Timaru, overdue from Melbourne to London. Both the English and French papers lament the death of M. Pasteur as the loss of the foremost scientist of the age. The Observer applauds New South Wales and Tasmania for prompting an Antarctic expedition, which it considers more dangerous than one to the North Pole. Washington, September 80. Mr Harrison does not intend to stand for the Presidency.