FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 4382, 5 November 1888, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

E>TGI>ISH AST2 FOREIGN CAB£S.

(liocoivcd noon, Nov. 3rd.) ENGLISH ELECTIONS. London, Nov. 2. The municipal elections now taking place are favourable to tho]Torios. ARMING THE ARMY. Mr E. Stanhope, Secretary of State for War, has announced that the British army will be rapidly supplied with the best magazine rifle iu existence. KING OF HOLLAND ILL. The Hague, Nov. 2. King William 111 of Holland is in a critical condition, suffering from an affection of the throat. REINFORCEMENTS. Caiko, Nov. 1. General Grenfell has Btarted from this city with roinforcements for Suakim. COMMERCIAL. Tallow, best mutton, 31s Od to 32a id. Beßt beef, 31s to 31s Od. The sugar market is quiet, German beet, ]2s Cd. Hidon, 4d to 4J. Kauri gum is lirm at lust quotations. (Received 10.25 a.m. Nov. 4th.) THE LATE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. St. I'ETKusnrßO, Nov. 2. In the railway accident in Southern Russia, it is now learnt that tho Czar and Czarina were thrown on to tho line, owing to the floor of the carriage in which they jwero trarelling collapsing. The Grand Duchess Olga was thrown on to tho side of the track, and the Grand Duke Michael was buried under tho dtbris of the wreckod carriage, but escaped without serious injury. One of the servants, who was handing tho Czar a cup of coffoo at tho time tho train was derailed, was struck by tho side of tho curriiigo falling in, and killed instantaneously. From inquiries niado it appears that the suspicion that tho accidonl \vaa duo to tho Nihiliats ia incorrect, and Unit the immediate causo of tho train leaving the iino was a defect in construction. ADVANCE IN WHEAT. London Nov. 2. Australian wheat, ox warehouse, hau