BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6900, 12 February 1894, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Prut Asiodalion—Electrle Telegraph— Oopyrght. LONDON, Feb 10. The barque Racehorse, with grain from Australia, has been wrecked at Calais. The rew are safe. The rate of exchange to Australia has been educed one half per cent. The trial of Sheridan in Dublin on a charge if being in possession of explosives resulted n the jury disagreeing, and they have etired until Monday. The Australian Mutual Shipping Company leclare a dividend of, six per cent, per tnnum. Mr Thomas Salt, presiding at a meeting of ;he New Zealand Midland Railway Company, said the directors had not declined the government terms, and with a vigorous effort would raise the million and a quarter pounds necessary to complete the east and west route. Mr Gladstone wb.b accorded a great Radical welcome on his return from Biarritz. A sensation has been caused in London by the reported discovery of " Jack the Ripper," author of the Whitechapel murders, in an English lunatic asylum. PARIS, Feb. 10. Baron Soubeyran has been arrested here, charged with obtaining thirty-four million francs from the Society Immubles to cover rash speculations of the Banque d'Escompte. . ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 10. Leading commercial people are highly pleased at the prospect of the commercial treaty with Germany. TEHERAN, Feb. 10. The Shah visits St. Petersburg in June, and thence makes a tour of Europe. BUENOS AYRES, Fbb. 10. The Argentine press oppose the extradition of Jabez Balfour to England. TORONTO, Feb. 11. Gaudaur and Hanlan have accepted the challenge of Sullivan and Harding, for a double sculling match on the Thrmes.