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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4893, 29 December 1888, Page 3

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THIS DAY. (Per Electric Telegraph—Copy right.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 12.21 p.m., Doc -20th.) London, Doc. 28. WRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE. The captain and five of the crew of the Storm Queen, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay, went down with the vessel. The survivors suffered terrible privations from thirst and hunger. OBITUARY. Philip xilbert Muntz, Conservative member for Tamworth. DEATH SENTENCE TO BE CARRIED OUT. Paris, Dec. 28, The President has refused the request of Prado, tho murderer, for a revision of sentence, and the penalty of death will bo carried out.

SUAKIM. Suakim, Dec 27. Osman Digna is rallying the Dervishes in the neighbourhood of Handoub,

THE KARUN RIVER OPEN TO NAVIGATION.

Teheran, Dec. 29. The Shah, acting under Russian influence, in minimising concessions on the Karun river which Sir Henry Duimraond Wolff, British Ambassador at Teheran court, succeeded in inducing the Shah to have thrown open to the navigation of the world.

(Received 12.25 p.m., Deo. 2Jth.) COMMERCIAL. London, Deo. 27. The total reserve in the Bank of England is £11,622,000, being an increase of £422,000. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is per cent. The English wheat market is lifeless, the Continental market is inactive, and the American is declining with increased weakness. The American visible supply is 30,000,000 bushels. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,416,000qr5; for the Continent, 460,009qr5.