HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6211, 21 March 1895, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copvkigitj.) THE LIVE CATTLE TRADE. NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE DOMINION. TROUBLE IN CASHMERE. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. THE SPANISH EMEUTE. A DYNAMITE TRAGEDY. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received March 21, at 10.20 a.m. Lo?fi>ox, March 20. The quantity of wheat and flour afloatfur the United Kingdom is 3.690,000 quarters j for the Continent, 910,000 quarters. The estimated American visible supply is 95,300,000 bushels. Shares—New Zealand Trust and Loan, LI 10s. Received March 21, at 10.30 a.m.l Loxoo>", March 20. Forty-five of the Gulf of Bothnia s cuttle were dead before reaching Port Said. Owing to Mr Campbell Bannerman declining the Speakership the Opposition will nominate Sir Matthew White Ridley. It is expected that the Government will ran Mr R. C. Gully, Q.C., member for Carlisle. The commercial correspondent of the Times in the United St ites reports that trade is mending and that confidence is increasing. Ottawa, March 20. The Canadian Press welcome the proposals for a union with Newfoundland, but think that the latter's terms are exorbitant. St. John's, March 20. The Government has intimated that before federating Canada must agree to bore a tunnel under the Strait of Belle Isle at once. This is a narrow passage between the Island and the coast of Labrador, ten miles wide. It is claimed that the construction wiuld reduce the tijie of the voyage from England by onethird. Received \larch 21, at 10.50 a.m Calcutta, March 20. The Ruler of Cashmere is preparing three brigades to expel Umrah Khan from Chitral. Mr Robertson, the British j?ent. is shut up with a small guard in Chitral Fort. The Indian Government Baa issued a proclamation stating that the expedition is not hostile to the people of Chitral, but it implies that the country will be permanently occupied and Umrah punished in order to prevent future aggressions. New York, March 20. A Spanish warship sank an American sloop running arras into Cuba. Lima, March 20.

Three days' fighting has taken place between the insurgents and Government troops in the streets of Lima. Madrid, March 20. Several editors of Barcelona papers have been arrested and will be tried by court-martial. Many duels are pending at Madrid between journalists and army officers.

Thirty bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the Reine Regente. Received March 21, at 0.35 p.m. London, March 20.

A vessel laden with dynamite exploded at Wesel-on-Rhine. Twenty-five persons were killed.

Raspberry pulp, sent from Melbourne by the Ormoz, sold at L2S per ton.