HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6257, 16 May 1895, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyri Gßt (pee united peess association.) Received May 16, at 10.30 a.m. London, May 15, The total quantity of wheat andffont,l ont , afloat for the United Kingdom j a 3,780,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,620,000 quarters. The American visihlo supply of wheat is 72,800,000 bushels. Shares: New Zealand Loan and M er . cantile Agency, L2. At the woo]/ auctions a medium catalogue was offered and a good sale Wa3 effected. New Victorian wheat is offering at 24 a . old South Australian at 25s 6d, sellers' prices. Received May 16, at 10.30 a m. London, May 15, It is stated that the capital of the Tokatea GoJdmining Company, of Hauraki, has been subscribed. . Mr Ward will confer with Earl Spencer First Lord of the Admiralty, respecting a naval station in New Zealand. The deputation from the Chamber of Commerce which proposed to wait on the Premier, Chancellor, and PostmasterGeneral on Friday, in support of a resolution carried at the Canadian Conference urging a subsidy for the Pacific steamers and Pacific cable has been postponed for a week. Mr John Rogers has been successful in his suit for a divorce from his wife Minnie Palmer, on the grounds of adultery with Jarrad, manager ot *'My Sweetheart" Company. The election for the vacancy of West Dorset, caused by the death of Mr H. R, Farquharson, Conservative, took place today, and resulted in the return of M r Williams, Conservative, who defeated Mr Horner, the Liberal representative, by 1200 votes. Constantinople, May 15. Great Britain, Russia, and France intend to establish consulates in Armenia and their representatives will supervise the carrying out of necessary reforms. It is also intended to establish Communes for controlling the laws and collecting taxes locally, and to supervise the tone oi matters to be referred to Constantinople. Paris, May 15. M. Grodet, Governor of French Soudan, has been recalled, owing to his permitting the natives to regain the right bank of the river Niger. Calcutta, May 16, Chitral tribesmen nightly harass General Lowe's expedition and have cut the wires in Swat Valley.