TELEGRAPHIC.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6180, 2 April 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Per Press Association.) (Received 7 p.m., April Ist.) COMMERCIAL. London, March 31. Glasgow pig iron is quoted at 495, and there have been large sales at that price. SUSPENDED OPERATIONS. The Moss Bay Hematite Iron Steel Company (Limited), of Workington, Cumberland, have suspended operations. GENERAL SHIPPING, The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Duke of Sutherland will leave for New Zealand on Wednesday. Rio db Janeiro, March 29. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Duko of Westminster has arrived here from Now Zealand. Her passengers and crew are well, and her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. Capetown, March 28. The s.s. Duke of Buckingham sailed from Algoa Bay to-day for New Zealand. (Received 10 p.m., April Ist.) THE VICTORIAN LOAN. London, March 31. Sir Graham Berry denies the statement that a Yictoian loan of £2,000,000 will be placed on the market shortly. THE IMPERIAL REVENUE. The returns for the year show the revenue to have been £89,304,000. This is exclusive of £5,085,000, transferred to local taxation. MILITARY APPOINTMENT,

Captain H. Lionel Pilkington, of the 21st Hussars, has been appointed Commandant at Perth. EMIGRATION. The question of emigration to Australia remains unsettled, pending the consent of the colonial Governments to the proposed scheme. A TERRIBLE FLOOD. New York, March 31. Besha county, in the State of Arkansas, is inundated to a depth of fifteen feet, and three thousand of the residents who sought refuge on the housetops are in a famishing condition. RELEASE OP A PRISONER. St. Petersburg, March 31. Schebrikora, who was arrested for writing a letter to the Czar, demanding reforms in Russia, has been released by order of His Majesty. In doing so the latter remarked that the tone of the letter was very bitter. PRISON INSPECTION. The Czar and Czarina inspected the military prison at St. Petersburg, and gave orders for the release of sixty prisoners, and also that the sentences of tho remainder should be reduced.

(Received 1.80 a.m. April Ist.) GENERAL SHIPPING. London, April 1. Arrived—Deva, barque, from Oamaru, (December 26th). OLD GOLD, Only 2,500,000 out of 4,500,000 pre-Yic-torian sovereigns have been received, and it is believed that many are in India, BISHOP PARRY. The Right Rev. Edward Parry, D.D., Suffragan Bishop of Dover, is in a critical state of health. The rev. gentleman, who is sixty years of age, was injured by the upsetting of a bath chair. In St. Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday the Archbishop of Canterbury, who conducted the service, offered prayers for his recovery, LEPROSY. Paris, April 1. Private letters received here indicate that 5000 Kanakas are suffering from leprosy in New Caledonia. The press are complaining of the delay which has taken place in isolating those suffering from the malady. SUICIDE. St. Petersburg, April 1. The man who was chosen by the Nihilists to assassinate the Czar has committed suicide in the city. He left a letter divulging hia associates, and in consequence the authorities have made numerous arrests. Generally there is an alarming increase of revolutionary symptoms. THE UNITED STATES TARIFF. Washington, April 1. The revised Republican Tariff Bill effects a reduction in the revenue of 45,000,000d015., and imposes a 15 per cent, ad valorem duty on hides. WHOLESALE MURDER. Warsaw, April 1. The result of enquiries into the recent baby-farming scandal is that the murderess of seventy-five infants has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. (Special to Press Association.) (Received 12.45 p.m., April Ist.) SERVIA AND BULGARIA. Sofia, March 31. Bulgaria is arming for an expected fray with Servia. The official press is defiant, and boasts that they will thrash their enemy again. THE GREAT CYCLONE. Washington, March 31. It is estimated that the loss of life by the recent cyclone will amount to about 200, A SHIP CANAL. Brussels, March 31. The work of excavating a ship canal from here to Antwerp has been begun.