LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1907, 16 September 1874, Page 2

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

[AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAMS,] The schooner Agnes Jessie arrived at Port Chalmers from Hobart Town to-day. She brings the following later English news : — : : -' ' ■.; London, Aug. 29. The harvest is nearly completed and quite satisfactory. .. The Great Eastern is laying the newAtlantic Cable. . ; . The wool sales are proceeding with great firmness. Seventy thousand bales . have been sold. The foreign buyers are operating vigorously. The Home''manufacturers continue very busy. : The International Congress has closed. MacMahon has returned 1 to Paris from Brittany through which he hais.-Deen making a tour, and wheie he was quietly received. In replying to addresses presented to him, he reiterated the statements he had previously made as to the absolute necessity of seven years' continuance of his presidency being definite and fixed. There has been ho recovery in the price of wheat since the heavy fall that had taken place. English wheat is quoted at 4s 4d to 5s 2d per quarter. ; ! ; ! The "Union. Bank has declared a dividend of :14 per cent. The New Zealand Trust Loan Company has declarM a satisfactory dividend. A thunderstorm in London flooded the streets. Several persons were killed by lightning. .._ ..._,..„ The Emperor of Russia presented LIOOO for distribution among the Metropolitan charities. Great distress prevails at Florence. Arrests have been made of persons connected with bread riots. Advices from India state that in Bengal there are still very serious fears that it will be five months before the rice crop is harvested. The death rate is fearful. The House of Lords has struck; out of the Public Worship Regulation Bill, the clause authorising the parishioners to apply to the Archbishop in the .event of the Bishop, refusing to suppress : ritualistic practices in the diocese. ■ ' After Marshal Bazaine's escape from St. Margttrite; it became kriovm ! that the

rope which was found hanging from the ! top of the precipice to the sea was stained with blood, as if from Bazaine's hands. Madame "Bazaine published a letter stating that she alone, with her cousin, planned the escape. Bazaine is in Brussels, Extradition will probably be demanded. Some asserb bhat the rope was put over the rocks with the view to removing the suspicions of the authorities from the guards, through whose connivance it is believed Bazaine's escape was accomplished.