HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8085, 25 September 1894, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.- Copyright (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Received September '21, at 11.10 a.m. London, September 23. Tallow —Medium mutbou, 21s; hoof, 235. Tho English wheaC markob is dopressed, the Continental in dull, and the American is declining. A cargo of Victorian wheat, by the barque Saxon, from Geelong, gold at 235. ! The total quantity of wool catalogued up to date is 67,200 bales, of which 08,000 have buen sold. Crossbreds are very firm and scourods are woll.

selling Cairo, September 23. I Cherif Pasha bus resigued bho Presiof the Coancil.

dency Tanguers, September 23. The Moorish Governor at) Casa Blanca has apologised for his violence to tho Consuls, and the Amphion has returned to

Tangiers. Washington, September 23. j A cyclone, 200 yards in width, doi vastated a tracb of country in lowa and Minnesota 200 miles long. Niuo ; towns and villages wore destroyed, sixty persons killed, and many in-

jured. Received September 21, at 11.15 a.m. ! Tokjo, September 23. • The Japanese Government havo decided to prosecute Mig war vigorously bofore the wintor sobs in. | Reinforcements to tho number of 80,000 men havo been ordered to tho front.

London, September 23. Tho Japanese legation are officially informed that tho loss ab the battle of Yalu was 10 officers and 69 men killed, and 160 wounded.

Roeoived September 24, at noon. London, September 23. Tho following is the result) of the race for Iho Prince Edward Handicap : Clwyd, 1; Worcester, 2; Sempronius, 3.

Received Scptomber 2i, at 7.30 p.nn Shanghai, September 23, The Japanese enbiraate tho Chinese losses, prior to the Ping»Kwong and Yalung engagements, ab 3000, chiefly in small actions, the news of which was supplied. Tho Chinese are pouring reinforcements into Monkden in anticipation of a Japanese attack, and the place is being rapidly reinforced.