BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6291, 11 February 1892, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

[Preti Allocation — Electric Telegraph — Copyright.] LONDON, Feb. 9. Isolated cases of foot and mouth disease still exist in the outskirts of London. Mr Gladstone returns from the Continent on Saturday week. Wool is unchanged. Colonial stocks are very depressed. The best friends of the colonies among financial authorities consider the situation daily grow 3 graver, and expect there will be a serious weakening of the credit of the colonies unless public works are stopped. They insist that the colonies must borrow everything locally for at least a year. Sir W. J. Gendall has been appointed Governor of Cyprus. The Daily Chronicle, in attempting to reassure investors, points out that it is impossible to effect rapid retrenchment in the Australian colonies. The Waterloo Cup is creating some little interest, and the nomination of Colonel North is supported at 4 to 2. Obituary : Right Hon. Sir James Caird, an eminent agricultural authority, a»ed 76. The Coal Miners Union has called out 100,000 of its members owing to a dispute arisiu<j over the employment of one man. Tlie toi>a.l cjuaufci^y of wliea.^. etticl flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,900,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,156,000. Siares in the Otajo and Southland Invest cnent Society are quoted at ss, Robert C.^ r pbell and Co. £4, Dalgetty & Co. £6 155. Feb. It. — The Standard asserts that the fail in colonial stocks is due to failures in Melbourne and Brisbane. The number of deaths reported in Loudon for the week from influenza are 376. The death rate of those attacked by the epidemic is 31 per 1000. A statement made by the World that the Queen had consented to tho burial of the remains of the Duke of Clarence at ISandringham, is officially denied. BERLIN, Feb. 10. The German loan has been subscribed three-fold. ST. PETERSBURG, Fkb. 10. Eleven warships are being added to the Russian Pacific squadron, and in addition to , these the fleet will be augumented by a number of smaller vessels. MADRID, Feb. 10. Four of the Ceres Anarchists have been executed, and there is considerable excitement m Spain at the death Bentence having been carried out. A bomb was exploded in Barcelona, and rioting has taken place at Zamona. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. The Finance Committee of the Senate has reported adversely on all the free silver coinage bills.