TELEGRAPHIC.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 743, 1 June 1894, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

W ednesclay.

LONDON, May 28 Three months bills are discounted at | per cent. Australian wheat crrgo sold at 21s 3d.

At the wool sales there is fair competition, but prices remain inactive. Mendip Hills (New Zealand) clip realised B£d, and Bellview 9|d. Advertiser says the fact of Australian exports exceeding- her imports by £ll, 000,000 is encouraging, and proves the vastness of resources of the Colonies. It predicts a speedy recovery to former condition. O’Doonovan Rossa has returned to Ireland. Engineers, with view of obtaining greater speed, and reducing resistance, have increased weight of new Atlantic cable from 400 to 6001bs per mile. It is suggested this will be suitable for Pacific cable. CAIRO, May 28 It is stated the tact of Unbar Pasha, new Premier, has led to removal of anti-British prejudice in Egypt.

TtiiirsdLay.

LONDON, May 29

An abridged edition of Tynan’s book regarding tbe ‘lnvincibles’ contains some remarkable admissions. He censures the Parnellites for insincere condemnation of the ‘ Invincibles,’ Biggar and Egan alone being exempted from the censure.

Tynan declares that the murder of Lord Fred. Cavendish was a deliberate deed, and that leading Irishmen all the world over secretly rejoiced at his death.

HONG KONG, May 28 Floods, resulting from overflow of the Yang-tse-Kiang, caused the death of 600 people by drowning. CALCUTTA, May 29 A landslip in Kulu, Punjaub, dammed a river, and the latter, bursting its banks, the surrounding villages were flooded, and 200 persons drowned.

Bullet-proof Cloth.

Interesting Trials.

LONDON, May 28 County Council threatens to prohibit practical tests of Herr Dowes' bullet proof cuirass taking place in Music Halls, owing to the fact of a girl assistant having been wounded. Military authorities are convinced of the strength of the cuirass. The Prince of Wales viewed some tests made with an armour clad horse. May 29 At Alhambra Music Hall two shots from a Lee-Mitford rifle were fired at Herr Dowe, who was wearing his bullet proof cunass. Dowe passed through the ordeal without any harm. Dowe asks £200,000 for his invention.