NEWS OF THE WOULD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 27 April 1895, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WOULD.

British and Foreign Tdegrt.rns CABLE MESSAGES. By Electric Telegraph — United Press A^o- ■ Ctalion Copyright — Received 27,-1,05 — 12.30 p.m. N.Z. VESSELS ARRIVED HOME. London, April 25. Arrived : Auckland, Cnnapus, and Wairoa. QUEENSLAND LOAN. Lcindok, April 2G. The Queensland loan is quoted at 4^ per cent premium. The Times remarks that the market is being prepared for further Australian issues. WARWICK ELECTION. "With the approval of the Unionist leaders, Mr Peel, the son of tho exSpeaker, has retired from the contest for Warwick. BUILDING STRIKE AVERTED. The building strike has been avotted by the masters agreeing to arbitrate. FREE BREAKFAST TABLES. It is expected that the Budget will still further remove duties in the direction of free breakfast tables. LORD ROSEBERY RECOVERED. - Lord Rosebery ha 3 recovered from his recent illness. HON. WARD'S ADDRESS. Tho Financial limes says that the Hon. Mr Ward's addreßS to the Chamber of Commerce preduced 'a good impression as to financial stability and resources. NEW ZEALAND LOAN TO SETTLERS. In connection with the Advance to Settlors Act, Mr Ward has arranged with the Bank of England to issue to-morrow a 3per cent. loan, of a million and a-half, with a minimum of 90. The tenders close on Thursday. LIVE CATTLE TRADE. < Tho Nairnshiro's cattle are bringing £16 t* £22. RABBITS AND POULTBY. The Thermopylae's rabbits nnd poultry are bringing excellent prices, the same as the CeltiG King's. Some of the skinned rabbits turned out mouldy. It is found difficult to sell wild fowl, as the birds are unknown in London. CHEESE AND BUTTER MARKET. Cheese is flat ; New Zealand, 42s to 465. Danish butter has fallen throe kroner ; choicest 955, five 80s ; Australian unchanged. ~- • .-'. PRICE OF SUGAR. Sugar is quiet; German leet, 93 3d ; Jai-a, 11s (Id. PAYING THE INDEMNITY. The rebels in the Brass district, in the Niger basin, pay an indemnity of £500, arid this finds the outbreak. SEIZING NICARAGUAN CUSTOMS As the Nioaragiiuns remain obatinale, four hundred maiines nill to-day occupy the Custom-house and railway depot at Coreiuto. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LOAN. The West Australian Government has issued a 3^ per cent. loan of tbreequarteis of, a million, with_a minimum, of 99. The price at which "the loan .has been offered has surprised the^market. TRIAL OF OSCAR WEDDE. The trial of Oscar Wilde and Taylor has begun in the Old B'juleyv 'BUS STRIKE ENDED. Paris, April 26. The 'bus strike has ended, and the men are resuming work. REINA REGENTE FOUND. Madrid, April 26. By means of trawling, the sunken man-of-war Reina Regente has been found in one hundred fathoms of water between Capes Taiifa and Trafalgar. THE CAPE FORGER. Capetown, April 20. Leibert, the forger, has been sentenced to seven years' hard labour. A TETRIBLE AFFAIR IN MONTREAL. Ottawa, April 26. A fire broke out yin a mammoth tobacco factory in Montreal, and a panic took place among the employees in the building, who numbered upwards of ono thousand. In their mad rush to escape they blocked the stairways, and fifty of those who were imprisoned by the block jumped from the windows, thus receiving terrible injuries. NEWFOUNDLAND AND CANADA. St. Johns, April 20. His supporters are urging Sir W. Wbiteway to obaodan the idea .of a union between Newfoundland and (Jsnada.