TELEGRAPHIC.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4766, 2 August 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Per Press association.)

(Received 1.20 a.m., Aug. 2nd.) NEW CURATOR. London, July 31. Henry Forbes, the New Guinea explorer, has been appointed Curator of tbo Canterbury Museum, vice the lata Sir Julius Yon Haait. TIN. Tin is quoted at £B9 5s per ton, (Received 2 a.m,, Aug. 2nd.) HONOURING BISHOP BARRY. The University of Durham has conferred the Doctorship of Divinity on Bishop Barry, of Sydnej', THREATENED STRIKES. Paris, July 31. The Socialists in this city threaten to organise a series of general strikes in commemoration of the centenary of the French revolution. DISHONEST BANKERS. London, July 31. Kelyngo and Greenaway, the principal partners in Greenaway’s Bank, Warwick and Leamington, have been convicted of misappropriating an Austialien draft for £llOO. Greenaway was sentenced to five years, and Kelynge to 12 months’ hard labour. (Special to the Press Association.) (Received 1.30 a.m., August 2nd.) JONES THE CRICKETER. London, July 31. Jones, Hie Australian cricketer, has quite recovered from his recent severe illness, and will play with his eleven in the match against Kent, at Canterbury on Monday next, THE PARKES GRANT.

In the action brought by several shareholders to restrain the directors of the Bank of Australasia from paying the family of the late Mr Parkes (for many years manager of the bank, and who was killed in the Windsor railway accident) a pension of £ISOO for five years, Justice North held that the grant was valid.

(Received 2 am„ Aug. 2nd.) ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Washington, July 31

Resolutions are to be introduced into the American Congress, requiring Government to demand the restoration of rams and ironclads flying the British flag, built for secedera and paid for out of Southern money. BRANCE IRON WORKS,

The Mossbrag Iron Company, Cumberland, is establishing branch works in America, at a cost of £400,000.

TRIPLE EXECUTION. Port-au-Prince, July 31. Three conspirators convicted of incendiarism, have been executed. Their object was to oust the President of the Republic qf Hayti. \

THE NAVVIES STRIKE. Paris, July 31. Fifteen thousand navvies are now on strike in this city. The Socialists are leading the movement. FAILURE OP THE WHEAT CROP. The French wheat crop is a disastrous failure.