British and Foreign Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9288, 14 January 1892, Page 2

British and Foreign Telegrams.

By Ehclric Tsiegran'r. — I T nUtJ Prets Association L,opyr\nid~Receioe<.l 14\1i92. — 5.30 j».m. CARDINAL MANNING DYING. London, January 18. Cardinal Manning is sinking, and tho Sacrament has been administered to him. NEW ARMY REGULATION. The new army regulations allot two annual commissions each to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and New Zealand, and one biennially to Tasmania. 1 ANOTHER BOMB FOUND. j A bomb has been found in the bnsh on Hampstead Pleath. The general opinion is that it was placed there by i the Anarchists, who wished to test its strength. BJTTER MARKET. Butter : Primo dairy-mado is selling at 118s to 122s per cwt.; medium factory, 132s to 118s ; choice lots, 118s to 1225. Tho consignment of inferior quality brought by the s.s. Valetta is affecting the market. Messrs Trengrouso & Co. are enquiring into the cause of tho damage sustained by the recent shipments of butter. SHARE QUOTATIONS. Share quotations are : — National Mortgage and Agency Company of New j Zealand,- 10s; Trust and Loan Company, ' £6 10s. SILVER. Silver is quoted at 3s Gfd. INFLJENZA. '" Ninety- five deaths from influenza were reported in London last week, compared i with 37 the previous week. The death rate of thoso attacked is 82 per" thou-' sand. UN-UN BANK DIVIDEND. Tho Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 12 per cent, per annum, and carried foi ivard a sum of £16,000. t . UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. Professor Stirling endorsed the paper j read by Professor Anderson Stuart, and said he hoped to see a conjoint university examination lor Australia, Professor. Beare urged that the national cnlturo of scholarship should form an important branch of the Pan-Britannic contests. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent- 1 General for New South Wales, hoped that close connection would be maintained botween the Colonial and English universities. DLHv'e OF CLARENCE'S ILLNESS. Medical bulletins issued yesterday respecting the health of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale were of a disquieting nature, due chiefly to his having passed a restless night. It is reported that pneumonia, from ■which the >)nke of Clarence and Avondale is suffering, is increasing. The public display anxiety owing to the weakly nature of his constitution, and the guarded character of the last medical bulletin. PRINCE IN CRITICAL CONDITION. '"' An official ' bulletin issued at 10.55 a.m. to-day states that grave symptoms have supervened in the Thike of Clarence's case, and that the patient is in a critical condition. ANOTHER ANARCHIST ARRESTED. Another "Wai sail Anarchist has heen arrested. COLONIAL LOANS. -\ A million of New South Wales and Victorian stock is awaiting realisation, A cable stating that New South Wales has decided to issue Treasury bills at 4 per cent at par, which has greatly depreciated and injured the prospect of the issue, which is, considered to . be impossible of success at less than 4^ per cent. Purchasers who had already arranged to take large amounts at &% per cent, now refuse to touch the bills at 4 per cent., and any attempt to force a public loan gould produce a panic. A BONAPARTE IN TROUBLE. Paris, January 12. Louis Boaapaue, son of Lucien Bonaparte, has been charged with defrauding Eosalie, hi 3 reputed wife, of diamonds valued at £20,000, and which he handed to another woman, whom he has since married. He was remanded. CHILIAN DIFFICULTY. ! Washington, January 13. President Harrison is reported to havo informed tho Cabinet that the Chilian situation is serious, inasmuch as there is an absence of expression of regret for tho attack made on sailors belonging to the United States warship Baltimore by Chilians.

Mr W. Bayly was severely kicked by a horso on tho right thigh at the back of Mr Calghor'u stables this (Thursday) afternoon. It appears that Mr Bayly was passing a horse, on whom he put his hand, ■when the animal lashed out and kicked him. Dr. Leatham^ who was passing, made a casual examination of tho injury, and then sent Mr Bayly to his residence in a cab, lie himsolf following on horseback. It is understood that no bones arc broken.