AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5144, 13 July 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Friday.

It is announced that Government will shortly call for tenders in London for a loan of £5.500,000, bearing interest at the rate of 3| per cent.

Saturday. The sculling match between Harrington and Nelson took place to-day, and resulted in an easy victory for Harrington.

A procession numbering fully 5000 proceeded to Government House to-day, and presented a petition to his Excellency; signed by over 20,000 persons, praying for the commutation of the capital sentence passed upon the prisoner Frank Johns, condemned te death for the murder of a fellow prisoner in Paramatta gaol.

[Age Specials.] London, July 1.

A meeting of debenture holders of the New Zealand Agricultural Company (Limited) was held yesterday, when they consented to the payment of the debentures coming due being postponed for five years.

July 2. Assurance has been received from Eussia that her intentions are pacific, notwithstanding that she has sent reinforcements to the Afghan frontier.

July 5. The appeal case to the Privy Council, Colton v. United Insurance Co., has been decided. The full Court held that the Company was liable for the amount of in surance against the risk contracted by Colton, as their agent, on part of the cargo of the Duke of Southerland, the vessel lost on her voyage from New Zealand to England. The Privy Council find iv Col ton's favor. July 6. i The Chinese authorities are alarmed at the evident designs which the Russians have upon Corea.Bnd a fleet has been despatched to protect the place. Russian troops are massing in the vicinity of Vladiyostock.