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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7463, 10 September 1892, Page 2

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Received September 9, at 10.20 a.m, London, September 8. Off-coasc cargoes of New Zealand wheat are quoted at from 2Ss to 30s. It is rumored that Sir F. Napier Broome, Governor of Trinidad, dislikes his position, and is anxious to succeed George C. Hamilton, Governor of Tasmania, who, it is said, will shortly retire and settle in the colony. At the Oriental Congress, Sir Arthur Gordon, formerly High Com missioner of the Western Pacific read a paper on the poetry of Fiji, and Mr Gladstone a paper on the Phoenician elements in the Homeric poets. The Times states that it is rumored thabcettain building and other companies are in difficulties owing to the suspension of the London and General Bank, Limited. The Advertiser says that the liabilities of the companies referred to amount to six million pounds. The Grand Lodge of Freemasons in ' England have rejected a proposal to create five new grand officers. The proposal was referred back to the ; Board of general purposes. I It is reported that fche crew of the barque Windermere, bound from Glasgow to Freemantle (Western Australia), broke out in mutiny in midocean and murdered the captain. Received September 9, at 10.40 a.m. New York, September 8. Thirfcy-five vessels from Europe are quarantined in th© New York harbor. Five hundred of fche cabin passengers still remain on board the s.s. Normania. |Teheran, September 8. Cholera is practically stamped out in Persia. During the plague 30,000 deaths were recorded, and of that number two-thirds took place in Te j hjsran. Paris, September 7 M. Pasteur claims that his anti cholera raccine has been an absolute success in the case of animals, and he hopes that experiments will prove that the treatment is suitable to human beings. J

London, September 8. Mr H. H. Fowler, President of the Loiml Government Board, has emooweierl the health officers to prevent passengers from infflcted ports lauding at ports in the United Kingdom, unless they can produce a definite address. The barque (hman Pasha, 457 tons, Captain Mellis, which left Newcastle (New South Wales) for Glasgow, vi* Mauritius, on March 14, is posted at Lloyds as missing. Received September 9, at 11.50 a.m. London, September 8. Mr Matkin, of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, will move, at the Trades Congress sitting in Glasgow, that an international congress be convened for May lsb to consider what steps should be taken to secure concerted action regarding the eight hours system. Constantinople, September 8. The Sultan's troops have completely crushed the Yemen revolt. Received September 9, afc 7.10 p.m. London, September 8. The Trades Union Congress, sitting at Glasgow, have instructed the Parliamentary Committee to introduce in the House of Commons a Bill to prerent the importation of foreign labor into the United Kingdom during strikes. Lords Carrington and Rose bery were visitors to the Congress. Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., has withi drawn from candidature as Parliamentary Secretary. Mr Tom Mann will stand for the office. Mr W. B. Perceval, in communicating with the Post Office, represents that it is grossly unfair for the Imperial Government to throw the additional cost of the San Francisco mail service on New Zealand, especially since the postage rates by that route were reduced from 6d per half ounce to 2£d on the initiative of the Imperial Government. Mr Perceval also points out that the Saez mail is a week longer in transit. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 12J per cent, and carries forward to uexb year's account the sura of L 9600. Messrs R. J. Watsons, worsted spinners, of Bradford, have convened a meeting of their creditors. It is reported that R. L. Stevenson, norelist, will shortly be appointed British Consul in Samoa. The steamer Wandrahm has arrived from Hamburg with several passengers suffering from cholera. The yes sel has been quarantined. New York, September 8. Ten further cases are reported on board the steamers Normania and Rirgia.