FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4936, 8 September 1890, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

o (Per Elkctkic Teleokaph— Copvbiuht.) (Per Press Association.) (Eeceived 11. a.m., Sept. 6th.) OBITUARY. Paris, Sept. 5. M. Chartrain, tho well-known author and collaborateiir with M. Err.knian. '.liecaived 10.40 a.m., September 6th.) AMERICAN TARIFF. Washington, Sept. 5. The Senate has reduced tha duties ,en flax, undressed, to 20 dollars psr ton ; hackled to 42 dollars 10 cents, SILVER MARKET. The American Treasury has decided to purchase 4& millon oza of silver monthly, instead of 54 millions annually. TIPPOO TIB. Zanzibar, Sept. 5. Emm ia asserting that England has determined to seize Tippo Tib if he comes to tho coast, nod messengers have started inland to warn the Arab chief. A CHOLERA. SCARE. Dcjrban, Sept. 5. The cholera scare m Natal ia over. FLOODS IN BOHEMIA. Pkaguk, Sopt. 5. Floods are prevalent m Bohemia, The river Moldaw is 16 feet above its usual height, and two-thirds of Prague is underwater. Many lives have been lost, including a party »>f twenty soldiers who were engaged m resells work. THE CHEMICAL RING. London, Sopt. 5. The formation of the Chemical Union has been postponed to November. AT A WELSH FESTIVAL. The Queen of Roumania was present at the National Eistedfodd, and personally decorated the successful bard with the badgo of victory. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION. The Standard says the Loichardt search expedition will be useless, aud whatever may bo done the fato of the explorer will remain a mystery. CARDINAL NEWMAN. A national memorial to Cardinal Newman is projected. COMMERCIAL. Tho total amount of reserve m the Bank oE England is £14,220,000. The proportion of roserve to liabilities is 44.0 per cent. Consols, 9Gi ex dividend. New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stook, 107£ ; ditto 3£, 97. Adelaide wheat, 30s, quiet ; Victorian, 38s ; New Zealand long berried ditto, 37s Cd ; market quiet, HSugar, Gorman beet, 13s 9d; Java cane, j 15s 9d, m aotive demand. (fleooivod 0.30 p.m., Sopt. 7th.) Sept. C. Now Zealand cheese is quoted at 455, The bulk of rocent consignments has beoome heated on the voyage and fetched from 28s to 40s. OAPTAIN COOK'S LOG. Captain Cook's three years' log has been Isold m London for £40. A CONTRADICTION. Constantinople, Sept. 0. The arrestgof Moussa Bey is denied.

LARGE FAILURE. New Yohk, Sept. 6. Sawyer, Wallaoe and Company, of New Fork, have failed fur £400,000. They attribute their losses to operations m wheat and provisions. THE FLOODS IN BOHEMIA. Prague, Sept, 6The floods m Bohemia are subsiding. Great misery has been caused m Bohemia through the floods, and many people who had to sock refuge on housetops or trees are nearly starving. SISTER ROSE GERTRUDE. Nf.w York, Sept. C. Sister Rose Gertrude, Superior of the Lepers' Hospital at Kalawa, one of the Sandwich Islands, has appealed to the Pope, asking EII3 Holiness to prevent the missionaries hindering her m her leper work. (Special to the Press Association.) THE FROZEN MEAT MARKET. London, Sept. 5. The.shareholders m the Colonial and Smithfiold Meat Freezing Company insist on regular shipments being guaranteed. The War Office having issued a regulation prohibiting tho purchase of frozen beef for the Army, a deputation from tho various meat companies intend to wait on the authoritioa and request them 10 \ rescind the instructions. DEATHS FROM CHOLERA. Mec«a, SvpK 4. Three hundred ami fifty deaths a dny from cholera aro ruportod More. TERRIBLE FIRK. Constantinople, Sept. 4. A great fire at S/ilonica, a seaport of Mncedonin, destroyed tho Consulates and 1200 houses. Thousands of people are homeless. Incendiariam by the Turks ia suspected.