BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1951, 11 April 1889, Page 13

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Per Press Association.) London, April 3. An Australian wheat cargo has been sold at 37s 3d. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,086,000 quarters, and for the Continent 356,000 quarters. The American visible wheat supply is 29,500,000 bushels. The Hon. William Spence Bateman Hanbury, 1 eldest son of Lord Bateman, has petitioned for sequestration of his estate owing to gambling losses. It is reported that at one sitting recently he lost £20,000. Dr Higgins, of Meath (designate Bishop of Antiphelless), who has been appointed coadjutor to Cardinal Moran, of Sydney, was consecrated to-day by Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin. The clergy of Meath presented Dr Higgins with a purse of sovereigns. Messrs Streeter and Co., the well-known dealers in valuable stones, have bought a million carats of South Australian garnets from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for £5, and have offered to resell to Mr J. T. Turnbull for £10. Mr Dawes, in reply to the strictures of Fair Play, says it is true the late SirW. Pearce's mortgage of £250,000 over the property of the New Zealand Shipping Company has been transferred to him, but it is untrue that he has any intention of foreclosing. On the contrary, he is resolved to maintain the independence of the company. Mr O. R. Strickland will be reinstated as manager, and Mr Tyser will continue to act as broker. It is asserted that the company's shares have advanced 50 per cent, since Mr Dawes became a director. April 4. In the House of Commons the Scotch Deceased Wife's Sister Bill has been read a second time by a majority of three. Messrs Weddel and Co. writing to the Financial News defends the Lyttelton and Timaru Harbour Boards from the sweeping condemnation by that journal of New Zealand Harbour Boards generally. Mr Tebbs, of Auckland, won the Treasurer's exhibition in anatomy and physiology at the Westminster Hospital. The prices of frozen mutton and beef remain unchanged. Information has been received that Arab traders, who have arrived at Stanley Falls, declare that towards the end of February they saw Mr H. M. Stanley and Emm Bey marching in the direction of Zanzibar. They were followed by thousands of men, women, and children, who were carrying with them 6000 tusks of ivory. At Elswick works, an experiment has been made with a new process of plating iron with copper, which has recently been patented in England by Captain L. Prout, the wellknown mining manager and speculator of South Australia. The experiment was sue- ' cessful, but it is doubted whether the process is applicable to large plates. Mr Cozens Hardy's Trust Fund Investment Bill includes colonial stocks. Her Majesty the Queen has returned from Biarritz. The Hungarian Diet has passed the Army Bill by a large majority. In the House of Commons to-day ftlr Childers' amendment, objecting to providing funds for the naval programme except by annual vote, was under discussion, and ultimately negatived by a majority of 33. The resolution, embodying the naval proposals of the Government, was-carried by a majority of 87. flThe appeal of Mr D. Kilbride, member for erry South, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of inciting, has been dismissed,

At the meeting of- the Bank of Australasia it was stated that the bank was not expected to experience any difficulty arising from advances on land in Melbourne. Yellow fever is raging at Eio de Janeiro, and no less than 4000 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak. The deaths now average 120 daily. It is reported that the Negus of Abyssinia has been defeated and slain in a conflict with dervishes, and that Abyssina is in a state of anarchy. April 5. Miss Mary Anderson- is reported to be recovering. The statement that she is Buffering from a mental affection has been denied. At a meeting of the Bank of Australasia Mr T. Sutherland, M.P., chairman of the directors, stated that the bank did not expect to experience any difficulty arising out of advances on land in Melbourne. Two hundred and eighty crofters have been despatched to Canada by the Assisted Emigration Society. Her Majesty the Queen has much improved in health by her recent trip to Biarritz. Before leaving the latter place her Majesty made a donation of 3000fr to the poor of Biarritz. The Pall Mall Gazette has been cast in £1500 damages in a libel action. Australian wheat, 40s 6d — market depressed; New Zealand long-berried wheat (ex store), 39s 9d— weaker. Tallow is firm ; best mutton at 26s 6d to 27s ; and best beef at 26s to 26s 6d. Ox hides, 3£d to 3|d per lb. Copper, £42 ss, and recovering. April 6. An Australian wheat cargo has been sold at 37s 3d. At the nautical inquiry into the circumstances connected with the ship Sir Walter Raleigh going ashore on the French coast, the board found that the master of the vessel was to blame for the accident, acd suspended his certificate for nine months. Sir Francis Dillon Bell, New Zealand's Agent-general, has gone to Paris, where he will remain until after the opening of the exhibition. Mr C. T. Ritchie, president of the Local Government Board, has appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the Vaccination Act. In his letter to the Royal Geographical Society, Mr Stanley describes the new regions through which he passed on his march to the relief of Emm Bey. The tribes inhabiting the forest, he says, are dwarfs in stature, and are cannibals. They are very numerous, and are great experts in the use of poisoned arrows. At a meeting of the Bank of Australasia i on Friday Mr Thomas Sutherland, one of the directors, explained that the advances made by the institution were prudent, and made without reference to the enhanced value to which land went during the recent boom. The statistics of the Board of Trade show that the value of the imports and exports for the last quarter is £13,500,000 in excess of the corresponding period last year. j The death is announced of the Duchess of Cambridge. This morning the Leicester police received a letter to the effect that during the races it was intended to assassinate H.R.H. the i Prince of Wales. April 7. It is rumoured that notes of the value of 10s will shortly be in circulation. Six hundred and seventy-five casks of tallow were sold by auction to-day. Medium mutton realised 255, and medium beef 23s !6d. Money is declining owing to abundant supplies. In the open market three months c bills are quoted at 2£ per cent. For Australian wheat (new crop) sellers ask 37s 6d, and for New Zealand wheat (on passage) the average quotation is 35s 9d. Forward business is weak at a decline. Arrivals of foreign wheat are small, but several cargoes are at ports of call awaiting sale. Colonial beans average 39s per 5001b. Gold has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Torquay. Sir Francis de Winton, formerly Adminis-trator-general of the Congo, states in a letter to the press that he doubts the truth of the story brought by Arab traders to Stanley Falls, to the effect that they had seen Stanley and Emm Bey marching in the direction of Zanzibar. The Rev. Dr Parker, the eminent Congregational minister, in the course of a speech at Liverpool, said the reason he refused to stand on a Liberal platform with Mr John Morley was owing to the latter's attacks on religion in his writings. General Gordon's library has been presented to the Borough of Southampton. April 8. The Ostend mail boat, on board of which was Prince Jerome Bonaparte, who was returning to France from a visit to exEmpress Eugenic, collided with a barque off Dover. The steamer sustained only slight damage. The funeral of the Duchess of Cambridge takes place on Saturday. The personalty of the late Mr John Bright amounts to three-quarters of a million. General Komaroff is on a tour of inspection at Penjdeh, on the Afghan frontier. The Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Oaseley, baronet, canon residentiary of Hereford Cathedral, the eminent composer of church music, aged 60. Sir F. A. G. Ouseley, Bart., son of the late Eight Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart., Bometime ambassador at the Court of Persia, born in London, August 12, 1525, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A, in 1849, and Mus. Doc. in 1854. Having taken orders, he served a London curacy from 1849 till 1851, was appointed Precentor of Hereford Cathedral in 1855, and Incumbent of St. Michael's, Tenbury, in 1856, He took an active part in the establishment of St. Michael's College, Tenbury, over which he presided as Warden, for the education of boys in classics and choral singing. H8 was appointed Professor of Music by the University of Oxford in 1855. Sir F. Ouseley is the author of several excellent anthems, of which the best known is " How goodly are thy tents , O Israel " ; and he has published sundry collections ot ancient and modern cathedral music ; besides a " Treatise on Harmony," 1869 ; and a " Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue," 1869. In conjunction with Dr Monk he edited "Anglican Psalter Chants." published in 1872. The remains of the late Marquis of Ely will be cremated, The Times condemns the Postmastergeneral (Mr Rajkes) for his discourteous treatment of Mr Henniker Heaton, and applauds the latter's endeavours to secure a

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