YESTERDAY'S CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 10201, 5 July 1889, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S CABLES

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON. July 3. The quantity of wheat and fl >ur afloat for th« United Kingdom is 1,672,000 quarters, and for tb.B Continent 216,000 quarters. The American visible supply is 15,375,000 bushele. New Z aland mutton is now quoted at 6£<J per lb. L-ather — Best aides are worth B£d to 9dperlb. The Lord Mayor received a deputation of 500 dolegatei from the World's Sunday School OonvoDtiGn. At a meeting in the'.Maneion House it was resolved to establish a fund for assisting poor patients who may wish to vitit Paris for treatment by M. Pasteur. Additional letters have been received from Stanley, the explorer. He states that his force is absolutely in rags and shoelees, and the men have perished wholesale from starvation. His hair has become white as enow. The Dervishes, who threatened the garrison at Assouan, have bten defeated at Wady Haifa. Their loss was severe, 500 being killed. Seventy Egyptians ana two British officers were wounded. The Emperor of Germany will visit King; Humbert in October and will then proceed to Athene, to bo present at the marriage of the Duke of Sparta, Rain has fallen in Russia, which has bad a most beneficial effect on the crops. AH fear of their failure has now been dispelled. The Northern Pacific Railway Company propose to construct a line westward to the ocean from Manitoba.