HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5907, 31 March 1894, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(PF,R UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ' Received March 30. pv 7.30 p.m.' l Vienna, March 29. The Emperors of Austria and Germany had a cordial meeting at Abbazia, on tho Adriatic. The monarchs twice exchanged embraces in the presence of dense crowds. London, March 29. Mr Mundella to-day again introduced the Settlement of Labor Disputes Bill. Obituary—Lord Haniicn. Received March 30, at 9.30 p.m.] London, March 29. The weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be L 23,110,000, the proportion of reserve to liabilities being 51 'BB per cent. Console, 99|. Three months' Bills are discounted at 1J per cent. New Zealand long-berried wheat, 27s ; market flat. The barque Achievement's cargo sold at 245. Adelaide wheat, 28s ; market restricted. Victorian wheat, 27s 6d ; market restricted. Mutton—Second quality, 4fd. The Nairnshire's mutton brought 4|d. New Zealand hemp is unchanged. Sugar—Best German beet, 12s 10k! ; Java, 15s 6d ; market flat. No. 1 best Scotch pig-iron, f.o.b. in Clyde, 43s Ljrd. Danish butter is unchanged. Received March 31, at 1.10 a.m.l Washington, March 30. The President's message declares that theSeignorage Bill is a dangerous measure, likely to revive the financial crisis. He believes it would be safe to coin seignorage silver if the Government were granted wider powers to issue bonds in order to protect the gold reserve. A mob in Texas placed an innocent negress, accused of murder, in a spiked barrel, and, after closing the ends, rolled her down a hill till she died. Rome, March 30.

The King of Italy opened the Medical Congress yesterday. The ceremony was of a brilliant character. London, March 30. After three days' bitter wrangling the .shareholders of Freeman's Journal Company supported Mr Sexton against Healy and Dillon, who lost their seats on the directorate. The Dock Company's experiment upon, the discharge of meat direct in the frozen meat stores has been a The Nairnshire's cargo was unloaded in two days and a half. The New Zealand loan conversion operations are proceeding well, a quarter of a million's worth of bonds so far have been operated on. Mr Huddart is arranging with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to erect cold stores at Vancouver. The Colonial Party will urge the Premier to subsidise the Pacific cable and