AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10331, 12 June 1895, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

N.Z. VESSELS AREIVED HOME. London, June 11. Arrived : Highland Forest, barquo, from Picton (February 1 9). LIVE STOCK TRADE WITH ENGLAND. The Gulf of Genoa has arrived at Port Said from Sydney, via Albany, with her forty-seven bullocks in good condition. The bullocks, ex Port Victoria, averaged a hundred and twentytwo stone, and fetched from 3s 2d to 8s 4d per stone. The salesmen consider many were old and oversized. RUSSIA MASSING TROOPS ON THE TURKISH FRONTIER. News has been received that Russi a is massing troops on the Turkish frontier. NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO DR. W. G. GRACE. Marylebone Cricket Club has undertaken the management of the national | memorial to Dt W. G. Grace. CHINESE LOAN. News from Berlin states that the announcement that the Chinese loan is guaranteed by Russia has completely surprised and outwitted the German Government. The negotiations in regard to the loan were kept secret, although it was supposed that both countries were acting in concert. FRANCE IN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA. Paris, June 11. Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies M. Ribot declared that public opinion had ratified aa alUanco with Russia in regard to tiie terms of the ChmaJapaneue peace treaty. COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Berlin, June 11. A colliery near Breslau is on fire. Four hundred miners wove entombed, and of this number only forty have been rescued up to the present. - MURDERS COMMITTED BY PANTHANS. CALCCTTt, June 11. Later particulars of the murders committed by the Panthans on the British detachment in the Zhob "Valley show that during the temporary absence of Lieutenant George J. Home, of the Royal Engineers, the Panthans burned the camp and the adjacent fort at Sandeman. In the attack eleven of the garrison wero killed. The natives afterwards traced Lieutenant Home to the place where 'ho was camping, twenty miles distant, and murdered him.

Melboobne, June 12.' The Postal retrenchment includes tho closing of about forty Post Offices where ' business, is so small that they havo been 1 kept open at a loss. The Jg-, commenting on the reari rangement of tho Colonial Bank of Ausi tralasia, states that the combination or amalgamation of the bank's interests and i concessions will plaoe other reconstructed institutions at a disadvantage, and they i will hare necessarily to adopt a similar 1 course. The paper considers it would ' be far better to take combined action. The four brothers Abrahams, defendants in the Greener gnn case, have been committed for trial on a charge of ' conspiracy in selling illegally marked ' guns. ' Captain Close is instituting an action , against Major- General Hutton, Commandant of the New South Wales I fqrees, claiming £5000 damages. The i matter arose out of the recent courtmartial proceedings.

Sydney, June 12.

Another aboriginal has died at Fernmount from tho effects of the poison supplied in mistake for mm. Tliis makes the sixth victim.