HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8089, 29 September 1894, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright

Received September 28, at 10.40 a.m. Lisbon, September 27. ! The British India Company* steamer Dorunda has been wrecked off Penicho, on the Portuguese ccaar. All hands were saved. The vessel is on tho bpHch.

Pakis, Soptember 27. Franco is preparing aland cxpi-ditionnry force i»t Majunga. It will march thoncc Antananarivo.

upon London, September 27. It 's reported tlut Lord Ripon Imb consented to Chief Jua'ico Way sucwedittvc Lord Kintore as Governor of West Australia.

Shanghai, September 27. Reports have been roceivod hero tint attack*) by Japaneao on Anchow and Yichow wera repulsed. The Japmeso cruiaors are ocouring the Yellovr Sea. The China Merchant Company are selling their ships to neutral flags. Thore \n a in th« Chineao mercantile worl I.

panic Received September 28, at 5 p.m. London, September 27. The annual meeting of tho Now Zealand Shipping Compmy will be hold on October 12 h. Aftur providing L 02,000 for depreciation, the profh and loss account for the year bhows a profit of L 22.700. The directors recommend that a dividend of 4 per cout for tho year be declared. IV R. M.S. Kiikoura arrived at Plymouth to-day with her cargo of frozjn meat in good order. Arrived—Barque Ringitikol, from Auckland (May 17th). Received September 28. at 5.30 p.m. London, S p ember 27. The weekly returns of i h« B »nk of L igland published to-d.iy s>how the total reserve in notes and bullion ro bo L 30,002,000, the proportion of reserve to liabilitien being 70*96. Console, 102. Three months' bills aro dhcoantod at § per cent. New Zealand 4 per cont inscribed stock, IQSh ; 3i do, 102]. New %<uland homp market inactive. Novr Zealaod long'berried wheat, ex warehouse, flaw, 24s (Jd. South Auntralian do, ex warehouse, weaker, at 245. Victorian do, weaker, 245. Sugar—German bo»t, quiec, lls Gd ; Java, restricted, 12s 9d. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in Clyde, 43* Od. Tho committed have agreed tint there shull he cix wool sales in the 1895 series To-day was dull of tone, and bidding was slow for crossbreds.

except Received September 28, at 7.30 p.m. Li.suon, September 27. Tho steamer Dorunda ran bows on to the rocko at Berlong^e, noar Penicho. The Viatel sustained seriou? lujury, and the forehold wan soon full of water. She wat% however, floated off tho rock and beached in a favorable spot, where the cirgo in being unloaded, and it is expected the will be s-tved,

ship London, September 27Tho New Zoalsud Shipping Compuiy carry forward a eurn of L4OOO to next year's account.