HOME AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 11356, 22 January 1889, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

'>(By .Electric -Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per- Press Association.) ; Oabdd, January 18. A chieftain named Isau has been cos toed. . . '' '•' London l, January 19. Mr Cracknell has been appointed deputychairman of Mr Bees' Company. • • The Cape loan of half-a-million at 4 per cent,' was subscribed threefold; average, £110 3s. Burns, a Socialist, has been elected to represent Battersea on the London County Counoil. January 20. ; Sir John Kirk, formerly British Copsull 'General at Zanzibar,'has been Bent on a special mission to Zanzibar on behalf of'the British Government. , . One of,the twoiceronauta who ascended in a biljoon at Anterwp with theint9otion of crossing to England on Tuesday last, has been rescued. The English wheat market is dull,, the Continental remains unchanged, and the American market has an .upward tendency. For Australian wheat (new crop) on passage sellers are asking 40s; Australian flour, 29a 6d ; New Zealand flour, His; oolo'nial oats, 29s ; peas, 36s 6d. • . : .' The money market is depressed owing to outside markets bains; fully supplied. In the open market three months' bills are quoted at 2 5-Sthg Best coke tin plates are quoted at ids. , . Antw.ebp, January 18. .. The wool sales closed very firm. New Yobk, January 18. Followers of the revolting Catholic clergyman, Dr McGlynn, are threatened with excommunication. WASHiraToy, January 19. The Immigration Bill now before, < ongress"provides for the exclusion of idiots, paupers, Anarchists, and Socialists from the United'States. •,. •>■ . .'• Gubo, January 19. Menelek, King of the southern district of Abyssinia, has made peace with the Negus, an/1 has ceded ten provinces to the latter. Bbrliv, January 20, It is reported that Prince Bismarck' has' assured Sir G.B.Malet, British Ambassador, that the charges made against Sir E. Mories were neither directedagainstEngland nor approved of by the German Government.