NEWS BY CABLE

Southland Times, Issue 13323, 27 September 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

British and Foreign United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. )

LONDON, Sept. 25.

Schwailz’s circular states that the improvement is most marked in greasy wools and medium scoured, the rise, being less in the higher scoured. There is a strong demand for crossbreds, which are fully 15 per cent, dearer. The tone of the sales is very strong. Best scoured have advanced 74 to 10 per cent.; short clothing, 10 per cent. Coarse crossbreds are fully 20 and finer lots 15 per cent, higher; scoured cakes, 74 to 10 per cent.

The Standard states that the colonial governments are making ready for several ' cans to be floated in Loudon.

Reports from Shanghai state that the Government has refused to accede to British demands to banish the Viceroy of Szechueu, who is responsible for the recent riots.

Sir Herbert Murray has been appointed Governor of Newfoundland.

French trade reports show that the value of the exports for the last three years has shown a falling off of L 27,000,000, and of the imports of L36,000,C00, as compared with the previous three years. M. 'Roche, formerly Minister of Commerce, comparing 1894 with 1890, states that the loss amounts to fifty millions sterling. The Moslems of India have addressed a petition to the Viceroy against the proposals to regulate the pilgrimages to Mecca. They urge that the increased taxes on pilgrims are exciting hostility, and that the practical effect is to prohibit large numbers from reaching this, to them, surest way to Paradise. They also contend that these taxes are a breach of the Queen’s proclamation of 1858 securing the religious rights of all the inhabitants of India. Sept.- 26. Received 26th, 10.45 p.m. The thermometer shows 88 degrees in the shade in the city. The wool sales continue animated and the advance in prices is fully maintained. Ferdinand Rothschild has bought the Duke of York’s collection of stamps, valued at L 56.000. The French troops operating in Madagascar are dying at Majunga on the northwest coast at the rate of 40 daily. The Japanese have captured Chang Hua and Taijamfu after severe fighting. Sixty thousand Japanese are operating in Formosa. Six British warships have been ordered to Nanking, which is the centre of the anti;, foreign movement. Received 27th, 12.30 a.m. Information has been received that an .immense landslip has overwhelmed Bazar Hudeya and Yemen in Asia and that 100 lives were lost.

A severe rheumatic pain in the left shoulder has troubled Mr J. H. Loper, a wel known druggest of Des Moines, lowa for over six months. At times the pain , was so severe that he could not lift anything. Withall he could do he could not get rid of it until he applied Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. “ I only made three applications of it,” he says, “ And have since been free from all pain.” He now recommends it to persons similarly afflicted. It is [ for sale by C. H. Maoalister, Chemist, I Invertsargill.