HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6242, 27 April 1895, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Tsy Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (per potted press association.) Received April 27, at 10.15 a.m.] London, April 26. In connection with the Advances to Settlers Act, Mr Ward has arranged with the Bank of England to issue to-morrow 12 per cent. loan of a million and a-half with a minimum of 90. Tenders close on Thursday. Received Aj ril 27, at 10.20 a.m. London, April 26. The West Australian Government has issued n& per cent, loan of three-quarters of a million, with a minimum of 99. The price at which the loan is offered has surprised tbe market. The trial of Oscar Wilde and Taylor has begun in the Old Bailey. Mirk Twain will visit Australia at the end of the year. Received April 27, at 10.3-5 a.m. Caicctta, April 26. The Chitral besiegers held a garden 40 yards from the gates of the fort, but a British sortie repulsed them. It was in this sortie that Captain Baird received his fatal wound. After he fell surgeon Whitechurch carried him to shelter, although repeatedly surrounded by the rebels. The doctor gallantly fought his way back to the fort with his dying comrade. The survivors give thrilling details of the siege. Ottawa, April 26. A fire broke out in the Mammoth tabacco store, Montreal, and a panic took placeamong the employeesin the building, who numbered upwards of 1000. In their mad rush to escape they blocked the stairways and 50 of those who were imprisoned by the block jumped from the windows, thus receiving terrible injuries.