LATEST HOME & FOREIGN NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7271, 20 October 1891, Page 2

LATEST HOME & FOREIGN NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Received October 19, at 10.30 a.m. London, October 18. H.M.S. Cordelia, which is at presont on the Australian station, will shortly bo re-called and her placo will nob be taken by any other vessel. David Christie Murray, who has been declared a bankrupt, asserts that he has no assets. Despite the rivalry of the German shipping companies, the quantity of cargo conveyed to Zanzibar by British vessels has doubled during the last six months. Tho Times states that the English Government has decided to assist in the construction of a railway from Mombassa to Uganda. It was the English Bank of the River Plato which suspended payment a few months ago, not the London and River Plato Bank, as mentioned in Saturday's cables. Madkid, October 18. Senor Canovas del Castillo is improving. New York, October 18. Irvine Evans, the American millionaire and speculator, has committed suicide. Ottawa, October 18. The lion. P. Garneau, Commissioner of Public Works for Quebec, has assumed the responsibility of payments in connection with the Baio Chaleur railway, and denies that M. Mercior, Premier of Quebec, was guilty of corrupt practices. Paris, October 18. Madame Melba scored a great triumph on her reappearauco as Ophelia in " Hamlet." Tho Chamber of Corn Trade urges the imposition of a duty on foreign flour. The Russian loan is at £ths per cent discount. Russia subscribed only 2 per cent of the amount herself. St Petersburg, October 18. The Ministerial Committee estimate that 123,000,000 roubles [LI 7,500,000] will be required to meeb tho distress caused by tho failure of the harvest. Berlin, October 18. Tb is rumored that tho C/arewitch and the Prince of Naples (heir to tho throne of Italy) will shortly bo betrothed to tho twin daughters of tho Duchess of Wurtemburg. Herr Bebol, the Socialist leader, speaking at the Congress of the German Socialists at Erfurt, admitted that the views of his party have been moderated owing to economic conditions, and because it was impossible at present to urge their demands by force, or bring on a rising with any chance of success. Received October 19, ab noon. London, October 18. Tallow — Medium mutton, 27s ; beof, 25s 6d. Tho English wheat market is dopressod, the Continental steady, and tho American is unchanged. Australian hides — Salted heavy ox, 3^d; do cow, 3d. Received October 19, at uoou. London, October 18. The R.M.S. Aorangi left Plymouth to-day for New Zealand.