CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5322, 29 July 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

iby electric telegraph.— coptxiqht.-] [Special to Pbhss Association.] ENGLAND'S FARMING DEPRESSION. LONDON, Jult 27. Mr TV. H. Long, President of the Board of Agriculture, states that while the Government is unable to remove the farming depression, it is intended to lighten the burden of taxation by relieving real estate at the expense of personal property. OBITUARY. LONDON, Jolt 28. The death ia announced of Earl Verulam. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Herr Neumayer, of Hamburg, will read a paper at the Geographical Congress to-morrow, referring to the nature ot the ice cap at the 3outh Pole. He suggests three meridian " routes as best adapted for the purpose of enquiry, either the meridian of New Zealand, that near Cape Horn, or Kerguelen Island. AN IMPERIAL VISITOR. The Kaiser arrives in England on Saturday. He will visit the Lake district and afterwards attend a review at Aldershot. SETTLEMENT IN PARAGUAY. Mr Lane, the promoter of the New Australia venture, writes to the Chronicle that the Cosmo colony in Paraguay, after some years' struggle, is succeeding. A block of 25,000 acres has been divided into 90-acre sections, which are producing enough for the wants of the settlers, none of whom have withdrawn. ~ HOARDED MONEY. The Times says that during the last six months private deposits in the Bank of England have increased,, by eight millions. Great Britain now [retains fifty millions every year, which were formerly employed abroad. THE BEtfDIGO MINES. The Financial Times, referring to I the Bendigo mines, expresses the i opinion "that some day Bendigo will | vie with South Africa and West Australia. . A CONTRADICTED REPORT. NEW TORK, July 27. An official denial is given to the report published in New York papers that Indians in Idaho besieged and massacred seventy-five white families at Jackson's Hole. The report stated that Federal cavalry started to the rescue too late, and were still a hundred miles distant when the' massacre began. It also added that the Indian rising in Idaho and i Wyoming was general. A CORRECTION. EIO DE JANEIRO, Jult 27. j The London message of June 12 referring to the declaration of a divi- j dend of fifteen shillings in the estate of the Bank of Adelaide should have read the Bank of Australia, the name of the bank having been altered in transmission.