BRITISH & FOREIGN
(Bleotrio Telegraph—Copyright—United Press Association.)
LONDON, June 21. The Fumess Company have purchased the Gulf line of steamers at Greenock. The National Bank of New Zealand balance-sheet shows a profit of £73,227. A dividend of 8 per cent, was declared, with a bonus, of 2 per cent.; there was carried to reserve £40,000, carried forward. £8227. « NEW YORK, June 21. Several rivers at Martinique are flowing with boiling water. At Basse Pointe steam has risen thrice the usual height. Mr Root, United Suites Secretary for War, states that the'cost of the war in the Philippines to date is tTiirty-four-millions sterling. HONGKONG, June 21. Fifty deaths from cholera are reported daily in the Chinese town at Shanghai, 1 whil* there had been forty cases in foreign settlements. BOMBAY, June 20. The Ameer hiis deposed the Mad Mullah on account of his extreme age.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9460, 23 June 1902, Page 3
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