BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1414, 21 December 1887, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The prospectus of the New Sfcuth Wales Colliery O>mo!iny (Newcastle), wich a capital of £100,000, has been issued.

The wheat market is dull, and has a drooping tendency. Australian, Russian, and Californian sorts are 61 lower. A oargo by the ship Arnold has been sold for 345. No new crops are offered.

The •♦Times" fea^ that the feeling which prevails in Vienna will com Del Count Kiluoky to send Russia an ultimatum.

The Franco-Italian commercial treaty has been ex ended for two mouths.

There is an impression ihit the artiole in the " Invalide Russe" indicates that the recent mobilisation is merely a disguise for defensive precisions.

A tin case has been found containing a letter stating that the barque Helen, from Hubart, was sinking in the Bay of Biscay. The Helen bis not been spoken since she passed Portland.

It is reported that forty members of the Clan-na Gbiei Society are dogging Mr Chamberlain.

The "Times" states that Mr Vutim, a mining expert, estimates that che Prit-chad-Morgan find, near Dolgelly, contains two millions worth of gold. France is forming an ironclad squadron, to be swioned in the English Channel.

A processionist named Harrison has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for stabbing a p 'liceman at Weßtminster on November 13.

The manager of the Opera Comique Theatre, Paris, destroyed by fire on the 25th May last, has been found guilty of negligence and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and ordered to compensate the relatives of the victims of the catastrophe.