BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6783, 21 September 1893, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

♦ Press Association — Electric Telegraph — (Copyright LONDON, Sept. 20. At a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Mr Keltic directed attention to the subject of the Antartic exploration, and referred to the good prospect there would be of the under* taking being successful if a bonus were offered. Mr \V. Redmond sails for Australia in the Orizaba on urgent private business. Baunertnan has decided to take part in the American tour, but Turner returns in the Orizaba. The Financial Times comments favorably on the rumor that it is intended to amalga* mate the Bank of Victoria and National Bank of Australasia, and City of Melbourne Bank and Colonial Bank of Australasia. The s.s. Duke of Westminster is loading on account of the New Zealand Shipping Co. for Port Chalmers and northern ports. She sails about October 20th. It is officially announced that Sir Henry Norman, Governor of Queensland, has with* drawn his acceptance of the Viceroyship of India. ROME, Sept. 20. There is an impression that the Italian Government, through the medium of the National Bank, is amassing a reserve of gold in order to form a war chest. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. In response to an appeal from Senator Vorliel and his supporters to expedite discussions on his Bill increasing the circulation of the National Bank to the full amount of b.'iids deposited, Senator Dubois, of Idaho, declared that those inteiested in silver would resort to every expedient to oppose the repeal of the Sherman Silver Act.