British and Foreign Telegrams

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9063, 22 April 1891, Page 2

British and Foreign Telegrams

By Electric Telegraph — United Press Association Copyright — Received 22 491 3.30 p.vi.

FAILUKE OP AN AUBTBALIANT FIRW. London, April 21. The Daily Telegraph says that Collyns & Co., Australian merchants and commission agents, have summoned a meeting of creditors. Their liabilities are estimated at about £50,000. REBELLION bU-GIMENT. A company of the Third Grenadiers at Chelsea refused to parade when ordered to do so. KRKiGHTri nidORGANIdF.D. The steam freights are at present disorganised, the P, & O. Company taking rough measurement at £1, and Tyser at 17s 6d per ton. I'OLLYN-* AND OO.'S FAILURE. Collyns (fc Co.'s insolvency is duo to heavy losses on shipments. Friends have advanced capital to enable the firm to begin again. O('E\N PENNY POST. Mr C. Raikes, Postmaster-General, asserts that penny postage to the colonies and India would involve an additional loss of £75,000 per annum. TRIAL TBIP ♦•H" M« >USA, The trial trip of the cruiser Medusa was successful. LATE LONDON S3ANDAL. Mr W. H. Smith, in reply to a question, stated that unless Mr de Cobain returned within a month to answer the charge against him, he would move for his expulsion from the House. \KiUC>T-"'IN PARIS. DalziePs Agency denies that two M.P.'s were among those arrested in Paris. PORTUGUESE SKIZHJ BRITISH STEAMEK, The members of the Willoughby expedition state they offered to pay duty to the Portuguese, and waited two days without a reply. They then proceeded up the Pnngwe, but the Portuguese opened fire and seized the steamers Agnes and Shark, which were towing lighters laden with provisions for the garrison at Port Salisbury. The Portuguese allege that a breach of the fiscal rules was committed, aud also that they intend fo prevent anyone entering Pungwe until Massikessa is evacuated. EXPED TIOM TO MASHONALAND. Capetown, April 21. Over 5,000 armed men are a convoy of the Boers expedition to Mashonaland. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES DISPUTE. St. Johns, April 22. The police have arrested many fishermen who were trying to ran the blockade ■with bait for French fishing vessels. RIOT 31^ PHILADELPHIA. Washington, April 21. Scotidale, in Pennsylvania, is in a state of auarchy. A desperate mob surrounded the works firing guns and exploding bombs. The sheriff is powerless until troops arrive.