BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume xx, Issue 6637, 29 March 1893, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

PTCSS Association — Eleetrlo Telegraph — Copyright. LONDON, March 27. Amended bills of lading for Australia will come into operation in a few weeks. March 28. — For the Tasmanian loan of £8')0,000 only £551,700 was tendered, £48,300 of which was at a minimum of 92. The average was about Is 6d premium. The balance of tho loan has been withdrawn. The net loss involved by Jabez S. Balfour's group of companies exceeds seven millions, including three millions swallowed up hy the Liberator Building Society. Colonel North's well-known greyhound, Fullerton, has been lost or stolen. The Standard says Sir W. V. Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, intends to j abolish theGosohen stamp tax and substitute a tax of a shilling per cent on all Stock Exchange contracts. PARIS, Makch 28. The Comte de Paris, in a circular letter to the Presidents of the Monarchist Committees, urges the party to accept any alliance, since monarchy alone can supply a, staple form of government. In the course of a, speech in the Chamber of Deputies M. Devillo indicated that Government would agree to a revision of the tariff rather than incur a difficulty with a friendly power. WASHINGTON, March 27. It is reported in New York that an extensive Anarchist plot has been discovered to murder foreign Royalties in the event of their visiting Chicago exhibition as guests of the Astor family. The police are said to confirm the rumor. March 28. Three banks in Nashville, Tennessee, have suspended payment, involving a loss of three million dollars.