THE LATEST.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 933, 17 January 1890, Page 17

THE LATEST.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 16, 12.20 p.m.) London, January 15. Ten thousand quarters of Australian wheat (January aud February shipment) sold at 35s 3d. The influenza epidemic is abating throughout England. The charge of criminal libel preferred by Lord Euston against Mr Parkes, editor of the North London Press, for connecting his name with the West End scandal, is proceeding. Evidence in support of the plea of justification is now being tendered by the defence. News by a mail steamer from Rio de Janeiro states that in the revolutionary rising at the place iu December last, 100 persons were killed and 21 executed. It is announced that the daughter of an English clergyman, at present an inmate of convent at Rome, will proceed to Molokai to take up the work of the late Father Damien in tending the lepers there. New York, Janpajy 15. An application fo# Ek new trial, made by for the condemned men charged with the murder of Dr Granin, has been refused, except in the case of Kunze, who received a sentence of three years’ penal serin-, tude. A tornado swept the town of Clinton, Kentucky, and demolished 55 houses. Eleven persons were killed by the falling debris, and 53 were injured (Received January 16, 1 ’.50 p.m.) London, January 15. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,124,000 quarters, and for the Continent, 420,000 quarters. The American visible supply of 18 bqshels,

Share quotations—-Australian and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company, LI; National Mortgage arid Agency Company of New Zealand, 10s ; New Zealand Land and Mortgage, LI; Thames Valley Land Company, Li ; New Zealand Trust- and Loan Company, L 1 0; D.dgety and Co., LS. (Received January 15, 12.45 pm.) Sydney, January 16. Lieutenant Bremer, late of H. M.S. Diamond, succeeds Lieutenant F. R. Pelly as commander of H.M.S. Lizard, at present in New Zealand waters. The Board of Health have determined, if possible, to prevent the spread of influenza to this colony, and have ordered strict inspection to be made by the Health Officer of all vessels arriving here from influenza-infected ports. In reply to inquiries from the local Board of Health, the Melbourne and Adelaide Boards state that they do not consider the disease could be prevented from spreading by merely fumigating the mails and quarantining the vessels from infected ports. Melbourne, January 16 Mr Gillies has completed the neces sary arrangements for the opening of the Federation Conference on the 4th proximo.