FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3378, 25 July 1885, Page 3

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGJT CABLE.

(PerElectricTeleobaph.— Copyright.) (Reutbr's Agency.) [Received 2 p.m., July 24th. I New York, July 23. General Ulysses S. Grant died to-dny at the age of 03. I Received 7.45 p.m., July 24th I London, July 23. The revised Budget as introduced by Sir M. Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was adopted to-night by the House of Commons. The car.'o of frozen meat ex the ship Lady Jocelyn, consisting of BDOO carcases, shipped at Napier, has been examined, and found to bo in good condition. The weekly retiirnß of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the 1 proportion of reserve to liabilities to bo 4.i per cent, and tho tr.tal reserve in notes and bullion £17,500,000. 3 per cent consols aro | higher, viz., 97{{(Special to the Press Association.) [Received 10.30 p.m., Jnly 240h.] London, July 24. Tho reports concerning the death of tho Mahdi aro now getting fully bolieved to be correct. The firm of Levy and Co., English and Australian general merchants, has failed with liabilities amounting to eleven thousand pounds and assots to live thousand poundx. The Mondiuj Pud atatcs that tho nomination of Dr. Walsh to tho Arohbiahopric of Dublin waa due to tho demands mado by tho Irish Press, Sir Chas. Dilko, Mr Chamberlain and Cardinal Manning. Tho Pope objected to his nomination.