HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5953, 24 May 1894, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

(Bt Eaxctric Teuwjufb—Coftrjort.^ (rxs tnrrncD r&xss assocxatios.} Receivsd May 23, at 7 p.m.) Lostxkt, May 22. The Doric's cheese arrived in good condition. The estimated visible supply of American wheat is 75,700.000 bushels. The quantity afloat for the United Kingdom » 4.050,000 quarters. The owners are fittinsc up the Perthshire with chambers to carry 800 tons of cheese and the Fifesbrre 200 tons. There is strong competition at the wool sales, and prices are firmer except for faulties, which are weak compared with last auction. Entries for the July sales will be closed when a quarter of a million bales have arrived. The fifth series will begin on September 18th, the quant''"* being unlimited, and the sixth on N0v...;l»r 22nd. Received May 23, at 7.30 p.m.J LojfPOJf, May 22. Isaac Pitman, the inventorof the shorthand system which bears his name has been knighted. Received May 21, at 1 a.m.] Losnojf, May 23. Arrived, at New York, barque Ohed Baxter, from Auckland (Feb. 4.) Str W. Vernon-Harcourt stated in the House of Commons that he had much sympathy with the views of the Imperial Federation Defence Committee. Gaudaur has iaaued an open challenge to any oarsman in the world to row him three miles for two thousand dollars a-side. ProfenHor Bcyce will succeed Mr Mundella as President of the Board of Trade, and Lord Tweedmooth will take Professor Bryce's place in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Imperial Government has acrced to lease tc< King Leopold of Belgium half of the equatorial province formerly governed by Emin Paaha.