NEWS BY THE TORRES STRAITS MAIL.
The Torres Straits mail arrived off Townsville on Sept. 14. It brings the following items of European news : — Mr Disraeli Btateß that Fiji will probably be annexed. A settlement of £15,000 a-year is voted to Prince Leopold. The Prince of Asturias will probably be proclaimed King of Spain. ■ All Spain is declared to be in a state of siege. The P. and O. Company surrender £20,000 per annum of their subsidy, for permission to pass with thei mails through the Suez Canal. The Duke ot Richmond has given notice that he intends to abolish betting, forthwith, on the Goodwood course. A baronetcy has boen conferred on the Lord Mayor of London. Advices from Singapore state that agrarian outrages are being perpetrated in Ireland. A large amount of Australian gold has ' arrived. Money is easy. The Directors of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank have recommended a dividend of 7 per cent. Cotton (Indian) is dull of demand, at 5d to s£d. Sales at Liverpool amount to 15,000 bales. Stocks in hand amount to 1,103,900 -bales. New Zealand fives, 104 to 105; South Australian sixes, 117 to 122 ; Victorian sixes, 115 to 117; New South Wales five3, lßßß ; 1922, 107 to 109. The Home markets show little change.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 2040, 21 September 1874, Page 2
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