SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 5954, 25 May 1894, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

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(special to press association. ) Received May 25, at 8 a.m.] London, May 23. Joseph Leigh, M.P. for Stockport, has been knighted in connection with the Manchester Canal. Doctor Bucknill, originator of the volunteer movement, and Mr William, founder of the Young Men's Christian Association, have been knighted. Dean Vaughan is resigning the mastership of the Temple owing to sickness. The Indian Government are issuing three millions of three per cent, stock. At a meeting of shareholders in the British Broken Hill Company the Chairman said that owing to a mistake in the management the accounts for the half year ended December 31st showed a loss of L 70,000 The accounts for the present year, so far as it has gone, show a profit of LISOO. At a meeting of the Industrial and General Trust Company the Chairman said that the liabilities amounted to three millions and a-half and there was a deficiency of a million and a-half. The meeting was greatly incensed and raised cries of "scandalous." It was resolved that the Board of Trade should be asked to inquire into the state of the Company. Sir W. Vernon-Harcourt, in reply to Sir G. S. Baden-Powell's attack on State duties saw no necessity to table such a motion. The Colonial Estate duty did not apply to countries under other sovereigns. Paris, May 23. M. Bourgeois is likely to succeed M. Casimir Perier as Premier. . Washington, May 23. The State of Wyoming is sending wool to England. This is the first time that it has been exported from the United States. The Pan American Bi-metallic Association has asked Congress to fix the rates of gold and silver at 16 to 1. Received May 25, at 11.10 a.m.] London, May 22. The Times asserts that the treaty with Belgium secures British control of the Upper Nile, thus giving an unbroken line of communication throughout the length of Africa, and will also tend to check the French advance in the Congo district. _ Lord Rosebery, speaking at Birmingham, referred to the dissensions among the party, and said that if the Liberals did not trust the Government it would be better to eject it, and he declined to remain a Minister on sufferance. The death is announced of Professor G. F. Romanes, aged 46. Truth considers Mr Ashley Cooper's pan-Britannic proposals all froth, and declares that Mr Cooper coolly takes the | credit to himself for the visits of cricketers and other colonial athletes. Mr Wemyss Head, author and journalist, has been created a K.C.M.G. Buenos Ayres, May 24. The Public Prosecutor in Salta has approved of the extradition of Jabez Balfour to England. New York, May 24 The floods in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, have rendered ten thousand people homeless. Pauls, May 24. Owing to the political crisis, there has been a fall on the bourse. London, May 24. The Times' Paris correspondent wires that M. Perier has resolved to lead the party and assist the socialists, he says, to save the country from a downward course. Hong Kong, May 24. Rioters in Coiva murdered the Provisional Governor and forty clerks near Seoule. Chinese troops suppressed the disorder and killed a hundred of the rioters.