BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11046, 25 February 1898, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

; Press AiiecUtion—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE WRECK OF THE MATAURA. London, February 23. • (Received February 24, at 9.4Q a.m.) Salvage operations in connection with the Mataura, wrecked at Magellan Strait, have been .partially successful. Seven .hundred balea have been recovered. Operations are* now stopped. . : MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. The Stock Exchange shows a general recovery. Consols advanced 7s 6d. ■ The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,217,000; quarters, and for the Continent 1,420,000 quarters. . Tallow : Mutton—fine, -22 s 6d; medium, 203. Beef—fine, 20s 6d; medium, 18s 9d. OBITUARY. . '.-' ;■ . (Received February. 24, at 11 a;m.) :The death is. announced of, Mr F. Wootton Isaacson (Conservative), M.P. for the Stepney division of Tower Hamlets. THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Washington, February 23. '.'• , (Received February 24, at 9.40 a.m.) The United States Government hays ordered the South Atlantic squadron .to proceed to the B&rbadoes, in the West Indies. THE GERMAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. • Berlin, February 23. (Received February 24, at 11 a.m.) The German expedition to Victoria Land will be absent two years. • MUTINOUS SOUDANESE. Zanzibak, February 23. (Received February 21, at 9.40 a.m.) , The mutinous Soudanese soldiers belong*' ing to Major Macdonald's Jab River East African expedition have eluded the British' forces sent to capture them, and succeeded in crossing the Nile.