LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10212, 18 January 1895, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

CABLE MESSAGES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN TELEGRAMS. By Electric Telegraph. — United Press Association Copyright.-Received IS/1100 — 3.30 p.m. A HEAVY LIQUIDATION CALL. London, January 17. • Mr Stewart, Official Receiver, who has examined the accounts of the Bank of South Australia (in liquidation), reports that it will bo necessary to make a call of £8 per share, payable in easy instalments. STAFFORDSHIRE COALMINE FATALITY. AH hope of rescuing alive the seventyeight miners entombed in the Giglake colliery, has been abandoned. LORD CHURCHILL DYING. The gravity of Lord Randolph Churchill's condition increases. PROTEST AGAINST BANK OF NEW ZExVLAND CALL. The Committee of shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand has oomeneda meeting of shareholders to protest against the call, and asking details from tho New Zealand Government regarding the position of the Bank. KING OF ASHANTEE. The King of Ashantee is defying the Governor of the Gold Const. Lord Ripon has refnsed to see a native embassy from that country. REDUCTION OF INTEREST ON DEPOSITS. The Scotch Bank 3 have reduced the interest on deposits to one per cent , ■which is the lowest on record. SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND. Hon H. H. Asquitb, Borne Secretary, addressing the Trades Union, emphatically dissented from the Socialist motion ■which was carried at the Norwich Congress, and dented that its terms represented the opinion of a majority of workers. 'Ihe proposal, he declared, was outside of reasonable discussion. UNIONISTS' SOCIAL LEGISLATION Speaking at Manchester, tlie Hon. A. J. Balfour referred to the Unionists' social legislation, and said he thought they would never eucourage tuc creation • of an impossible Utopia. UNEMPLOYED IN MONTREAL. Ottawa, January 17. The unemployed in Montreal threaten to blow up the principal buildings with dynamite unless they obtain work. GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. Washington. January 17. Thirty-two tons of gunpowder exploded at Butte. A hundred and fifty persons were badly iujnred in addition to a hundred killed. The explosion is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.