LATE CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11518, 19 January 1894, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

[1(T EIKITHIG TKLKQRAriI— COPYRIGHT.] [I'KR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received, January lOlh, 1 a m.) London, January 18. Tho P. and 0. Company's stoamor Britannia is ashore in the English Channol. No particulars are to hand. Tho New Zealand and Kivor Plate Land and Morlpnqe Company, Limited, shows a net profit of il2,Coofor tho year. ) Of this amount £2000 is placed to the reserve fund and .£IO,OOO carried forward. Two of the directors, Sir William T. Power and Mr Thoma6 Eussoll, C.M.G., retire. Tlio now directors are Messrs Nathan, McCoss, Clarke, and H. J. Gibbs. Paris, January 18. A quantity of dynamite, hidden in a quantity of ostrich feathers, exploded in the mail room on Messaijerios Maritiines Company's Rteamer Equator, on her arrival at Bordeaux. The explosion resulted in the death of throe aailors and wrecked the vessel amidships. Hong Kong, January 18. A sorios of severe earthquako shocks havo beon experienced in Mongolia, and 100 naHvos wore engulphed. Melbourne, January 18. The Government have managed to ship a largo cons.gnnient of cheese by the Aberdeen, a steamer belonging to the White Star Line at Id per lb. The P. and <">. and Orient Companies refused to carry tho produce for less than ljd perlb. Sir Andrew Clarke, Acting-Agent-Genenil for Victoria, is urging colonist exporters to send Homo shipments of coraprossed hay, which he is convinced will find a good markot. Sydney, January 18. Mr Infers, M.L.A., leaves for England to raise tho nocessury capital to work the coal discovorod in tho Cremorne bore, on the shores of Port Jackson. The proeeadings at the Labour Conforonce are beiup conductod in camera St. Petebsbuugu, January 17. Tho Kussian Government has demanded the right of acee3B to the naval stores formerly depositod on Poros, a small island of Greece.