CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9903, 23 November 1893, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BSITISH ATRD FOREIGN. [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Peb Press associations.) DRIED FRUIT. London, November 22. ' (Eeceived November 22, at 5 p.m.) Eight hundred boxes of dried apricots from the irrigation settlement at Mildura bave been sold at 97s per cwt, which is 15s Gd above tbe new season article from California. MATABELE LAND. Replying to a question asked by Mr Labouchere in the House of Commons, Mr Sydney BuxtoD, Under - Secretary for the Colonies, said the Government : would nos parmifc Imperial troop 3to • share in looting tbe lands and mines of the Matabeles, but complete surrender would be • insisted upon. INFLUENZA. ; Influenza is prevalent in Blackburn, and ifc ; is estimated there are 10,000 suffering from i the epidemic. 1 A REPORTED REVERSE. " Capetown, November 21. (Eeceived November 22, at 5 p.m.! Dr JatGeion'a forces pursued King Loben- . o-uIaV, and ifc is reperted that the latter defeated them with serious loss. . A RECONSTRUCTED BANK. Novembtr 22. (Eeceived November 23, at 110 a.m.) i At a meetiDg of the shareholders cf the London Bank of Australia, Sir J. F. Garrick l announced that duriug the suspension of the * institution trust accounts amounting to about LGOO.OOO were opened, aad tbe bulk of them had been transferred fo the new bank. The depositor*?, he said, bad applied j for about L170.C00 worth of preference c shares, and old shareholders had taken I. •13,000 Dew ordinary shares. The calls had almost all been paid—large sums having fi been received iv anticipation of calls. c: The appeal of the Mortgage Insurarce S( Company against the decision'of the Court n of Queen's B-*ncb, which ordered them to pay LIOOO for a deposit in the Commercial Bank «f Australia, insured in its office, was argued ?, to-day and dismissed. THE FRENCH MINISTRY'S ir PRQGIUMME. j k Parts, November 22. jai (Received November 23, at 1.10 a.m.) j The programme of M. Dnpuy, Premier, ' declares against Socialism, and advocates ! T

idlvidual liberty and freedom of labour f t promises social and sanitary reform, and 1 he establishment of a superannuation fund -" sr working men. Tne programme was well - sceived in the Chamber cf Deputies. ]