TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC YELLOW FEVER.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 41, 16 August 1895, Page 2

TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC YELLOW FEVER.

(Per Prkss Association). London, August 15. Tho ship Menai, from Newcastle to Capilla, is posted at Lloyd's as missing. Tho steamer Southern Cross has called at Monte Video for coal and water, Her cargo of stock is in good condition. The American visible supply of wheat is 462,000,000 bushels. A substantial city firm is willing to contract to carry Victorian produce at rates slightly bolow the P. and O, and Orient, but virtually same as those already offered by another firm. The Austral- African Exploration Company has been registered with half a million capital. The quantity of wheat aud flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,890,000 quarters, aud for the Continent 810,000. Australian aud New Zealand mortgage debentures are quoted at 103. Madrid, Au?. 15. News has bsen received that yellow fever is prevalent among tho Spanish troops in Cuhi, and the death rate reaches as high as 140 daily. Rotterdam, August 15. Gnstan Bin gen, a banker, Ims boen arrested for absconding with 700,000 franc?. He attempted suicide when arrested. Sofia, Aug. 18. Metropolitan Cleaient has informed Prince Ferdinand that the Czar will only be reconciled en condition that Ferdinand becomes a Bulgarian and allows his son to be converted in the Greek Church. He petitions Russia to send on envoy. The Czar does not desire the control of the army or internal affairs in Bulgaria, but insists on the control of the foreign j policy. _