NEW ZEALAND FLAX SELLING WELL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8614, 28 October 1889, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND FLAX SELLING WELL.

London, October 26. Fourteen hundred bales of New Zealand hemp have been sold at full rates. NKW RAILWAY REGULATIONS. The Board of Trade have issued a circular warning all railway companies to fix points and signals under the interlocking system, and to adopt continuous brakes; also to print price of ticket on its face. They have .also intimated their intention of enforcing the recent Act passed by the Imperial Parliament. PARNELL COMMISSION. Before the Parnell Commission, today, Mr. Davitt stated that Pigott had admitted to his servant having confessed to the proprietors of The Times that the letters published by that paper on " Parnellism and Crime " were forgeries before the trial of O'Donnell took place. NEW ZEALAND fONVERSION LOAN The average of the New Zealand Conversion Loan was £95 16s Bd. For the New Zealand Conversion Loan a syndicate tendered for about two millions. CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE RETURNED In the election for Brighton, Mr Gerald Loder, a Conservative candidate, has been returned by 7180 votes against 4685 votes polled by the Home Rule candidate. NEW ZEALAND SHIPS ARRIVED HOME. London, October 27. Arrived : Ships Abercarne, from Lyttelton (July 2nd) ; Banffshire, barque, from xVuckland (July 2nd), GERMAN PROTICOTOR&TE IN AFKICA. Berlin, October 26. A German protectorate is proclaimed over the territory lying between Vitu and Kesinajo, in East Africa. ARCHDUKE JOHN WISHES TO RETIBK INTO PRIVATE LIFE. Vienna, October 26. The Archduke John has petitioned the Emperor of xiustria for permission to resign his rank and title and retire into private life. GERMAN EMPEROR VISITS TURKEY St. Petersburg, October 26. The visit of the Emperor of Germany to the Sultan of Turkey has been the subject of some comment in the Russian press. It is believed he attempted, without success, to induce Turkey to join the Tr.pie Alliance. SULKING UP A BANK. A man entered the Union Bank of Manchester, at Didsbury, and after shooting the manager, stole £80. On being followed, he tired at the pursuers, but, seeing no chance of escape, committed suicide. STOCK OF PIG IKON. The present stock of pig iron is 750,000 tons below that usually held. RIMUTAKA AT RIO. Rio de Janeiro, October 27. The R.M.S. Rimutaka arrived here on Wednesday from New Zealand, all well, and her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. TWO SURVIVORS FROM WRECK. New York, October 27. Two of the wrecked survivors of the Earnmoor, who have returned to Baltimore, relate they experienced terrible sufferings in an open boat. Their two dead comrades were eaten. DEFEAT OF ARABS. Zanzibar, October 27. Captain Wissman has defeated five thousand Bushires, killing three hundred.