CABLE BREVITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10194, 31 October 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

. News has been received that the Mahdi is arming 12,000 Arabs to prosecute hostilities against the Italians. ..

The Canadian loan of two and a-quarter millions sterling at 3 per cent., with a minimum of 95, was subscribed fivefold.

The Pall Mall Gazette says that Lord Jersey,l^ report on the recent Canadian Conference heartily supports Mr Huddart's line of steamers.

Mr Valentine, the dairy expert, expects to register his Colonial Produce Distributing Company this weekl He is issuing about 400,000 shares. •" '

Wash, who while drunk quarrelled with his wife and cut her throat in Melbourne, lias been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years'imprisonment.

It is expßcted that the Opposition party in Victoria will assist the Government in bringing the session to a close before Christmas. '

William: Heaton Rhodes, youDgeat son of the late Mr R. H. Rhodes, of Canterbury, New Zealand, an Oxford student, fell from the scaffolding of Brasenoae College, and was killed. '

The directors of the New Zealand, and River Plate Land and Mortgage Agency Company, Limited, have received 85,000 proxies In favour of re-forming the company, as against 45,000 for the contraction of business and graduHl liquidation.

Threa New Zealaud competitors are engaged in tha New South Wales Rifle Association meeting which is taking plac6 this week. Corporal Brown was a prlzetaker in the first stage of the Queen's match.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph recommends; tho appointment' of an official meat grader to remove the stigma that New South Wales meat is rnbbish The article also commends the Naw Zealand Parliament for its legislation in the direction of instituting an official grading of butter and cheese.

Mr Flogd, a Melbourne resident, claims (,o have Invented a flying machine, which Professor Kernot, of the Melbourne University, Cftrtifios as capable of ascending vertically any desired height, travelling horizontally, and descending eithor obliquely or vertically at any desired spot.

At a meeting of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, Mr 0. J. Hegan, the chairman, said that the bank had never been in so strong a position as it was at the present time. Ttia policy of the directors was to concentrate business and retrench as much as possible. Mr Hsgan. said there was ho prospect of paying a dividend for some time, and he. hinted at the possibility of paying oil deposits in advance.