HOME AND FOREIGN .
TKEUTER'S XELEGKAAIS.'I LONDON. July 9. Tho deaths are announced of the Right Hon. W. P. Wood, Baron Hatherloy (formerly Lord Chancellor of Great Britain), and of General Sir Richard Waddy, K.C.B. ROME. June 9. The loan which Messrs Baring Bros., and J. and C. Hambro and Co., have engaged to float on behalf of the Italian Government, is for £30,000,000, bearing interest at 5 per cent. PARIS. July 9. Intelligence has been received from Tunis reporting that the French fleet before Sfax is still engaged in shelling the town. An attempt was made today to land a storming party under cover of the guns of the ships. The Arabs, however, who were in strong force, opened a heavy fire upon the boats, and the troops failed to effect a landing. July 10. Favourable accounts are to hand from the wheat-growing districts. The yield is expected to be up to the average. NEW YORK. July 10. Advices to hand from the northern and western States report that the greater part of tho winter wheat crop is now harvested. On account of the unfavourable weather experienced during the spring tho yield this year shows a decrease of 26 per cent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 9450, 13 July 1881, Page 2
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