BANK DIVIDEND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4065, 1 August 1884, Page 3

BANK DIVIDEND.

T AWmA w O i? BAN^ Q AN E A rE NC E SERIOUS ?OWNS IN THE HANDS OF THE REBELS. APPEARANCE OF CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. (Received August 1, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON. July 31. The English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank has declared a dividend for tho past half-year at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and carries forward and places to the reserve, £20,000. King Tawhiao and the members of the Native 3 Embassy will have an audience with Her Majesty the Queen to-day at Osborne. The Daily News, in its this morning, publishes a telegram stating that a serious rising has occurred in the southwest provinces of Yemen, on the Red Sea coast of Arabia. The Arab insurgents declared themselves followers of the Mahdi, and mustered in great force. Sava, the capital of the province yielded to them, and they also captured several towns and villages. The governor of the province found himself unable to cope with the insurgents. The Porte has despatched a force of 10,000 troops to restore order. The Australian cricketers commence a match to-day at the Oval against an Eleven of the Players of England. The following are the names of the latter :—Bates, Briggs, Emmett, Hall, G. G. Hearn, Jesse Hide, Humprhries, Hunter, Peate, Read and TJlyett.