SEDUCTION IN FREIGHT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9087, 20 May 1891, Page 2

SEDUCTION IN FREIGHT.

London, May 19. The New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw Savill Company have reduced, mail freights by ten shillings, and ordinary ■cargo Ssjperton. ESTATES COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. The Hon S. C. Glyn, of the Bank of New Zealand Board, has joined., the board of the Estates Company which took over the Globo assets of the.Bank of New JZealand. BARING BROTHERS' ASSETS. It i 3 rainored that a great Financial Trust is being formed for the purpose of absorbing Baring Brothers' assets from the Bank of England when the •market is- favorable: ' .. . CRICKETING TEAM. Shrewsbury declines to join LordSheffield's team on the grounds that business prevents him leaving, and Attewell and Guim explain that the terms aTe unsuitable. CRUISER LEFT FOR AUSTRALIA The defects developed in the trial of the, Australian cruiser Tauranga have been remedied, and she, has left for Australian waters. The cruisers Katoomba, Ringarooma, and Tauranga, and the torpedo gunboat- Boomerang will be placed on^he active list on thoir arrival in the colony. QUEEN NATALIE TO LEAVE BELGRADE. Belgrade, May 19. Within half an hour of the rescue of ex-Queen Natalie, five hundred of her supporters assembled to guard her palace. At dawn the gendarmes forced their way through the gnard, and, arousing the Queen, invited her to leave peaceably. After reflection the Queen, , in order to avoid bloodshed, promised to do so, and was escorted to the train in, which she was conveyed to the Hungarian frontier. In the J fighting last night, only one was killed, whilst fifty others were injured. BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION. . The monthly circular of Mr F. O. Licht, sugar expert, states that the month's production of beet shows an increase of 13,000 tons, but the estimate for the campaign is unaltered. SEIZURE. Details of the captures of the British and German - steam colliers by the Chilian rebel cruiser Blanco Encalada has been received; From these' it is learnt that immediately on] the seizure being made known to the British 1 Admiral, he demanded an apology, threatening otherwise to open fire on the rebel ships. The Captain of the Blanco Encalada at once apologised, and fired a royal salute.