BRITISH A FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6260, 6 January 1892, Page 2

BRITISH A FOREIGN

[Pretß AuociaUon— Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] CAPETOWN, Jan. 3. R.M.S. Ruapehu left to-day for Hobart and Auckland. LONDON, Jan. 4. R.M,S. Kaikoura is loading for Port Chalmers and Northern ports. The firm of Alexander and Co., sharebrokers, of Old Bond Street, which was declared bankrupt a few months ago, has oeen reconstructed, and the liabilities of the old firm have been liquidated. Owing to the keen competition of the Tyser line freights by the Shaw, Savill, Albion Company's steamer Pakeha direct to !"f ew Zealand have been fixed at 25s per ton. Freights by the Company's sailing vessels have been reduced to 20s. Some cases by Orizaba branded prime new Victorian dairy butter reablsed only 95s as the dealers declare that the consignment consisted of old butter* The Pall Mall Gazette declares that all British warships fitted up with boilers of a similar type to those on the Australian cruisers have proved to be absolutely worthless for speed and that it is dangerous for the stokers to work near them. It is imperative, the Pall Mall Gazette says, that this type of boilers should be replaced. An influential movement is on foot in the city to establish a control of colonial bondholders. Jan. 5. - Obituary : Sir George Airey, the astronomer. It is reported that the attempt to blow up Dublin Castle originated with the Irish dynamiters in Chicago. Cellier's new opera, "The Mountebank," was produced with great success at the Lyric. Influenza is universal throughout the southern half of England. Dunedin 5 per cent, stock has risen 2 per cent. , and New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agencies debentures 1 per cent. BERLIN, Jan. 5. A report is in circulation to the effect that PfTieffer, Dr. Koch's son-in-law, has discovered the bacillus of influenza. PARIS, Jan. 5. M. de Manapassant, the French author, has been removed to a lunatic asylum. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 5. j The Grand Duke Sergius, whose tyranny in Moscow is Baid to have provoked the displeasure of the Czar, tried to purchase bread in a shop in Moscow under disguise. Three police officers hustled him and then arrested him, but they committed suicide on discovering that their prisoner was a Grand Duke. TEHERAN, Jan. 5. The Persian priests having secured popular abstention from the use of tobacco are seeking to compel the Shah to abandon the new foreign monopoly. Although the Shah partly yielded, the mob surrounded the palace in Teheran, and demanded complete abolition. The troops were called out and fired on the mob, killing four. There is great excitement in the city. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jak. 5. The Porte is disposed to enter into direct agreement with England regarding Egypt. BUCHAREST, Jan. 5. The Queen of Roumania is in a critical state of health. SINGAPORE, Jan. 5. Orangkyah, a Malay chief, at the head of 500 rioters, holds the jungle at Pahauga, and defies the British to displace him.