LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2417, 31 May 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

SETTLEMENT OF ANGRA PEQUENA, SOUTH AFRICA. GERMAN OCCUPATION OF THE TERRITORY.

“NATIONALIST” PAMPHLETS BY SIR GAY AN DUFFY. NEW ORIENTAL BANK. THE QUEENSLAND LOAN. (Received May 30, 2.50 p.m.) London, May 29. Telegrams are to hand from Gibraltar stating that Lieutenant-General Nachtigal, of the German army, is now at that port and about to proceed in a German gunboat to formally occupy the territory at Angra Pequena on the west of Africa, which for some time past has been a German settlement, and regarding which diplomatic negotiations have passed between the British and German Governments, owing to a dispute which occurred in October last between a firm of German merchants at the settlement and the captain of a British schooner over the question of payment of Customs dues.

(Received May 31, 12.13 p.m.) May 30. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has announced his intention of issuing a series of “Nationalist ” pamphlets, advocating the creation of an Irish Parliament. The prospectus of a new Oriental Bank has been issued. The capital of the institution will be two millions sterling.

(Received May 31, 1.20 p.m.)

Tenders for the Queensland loan of £2,670,000, bearing interest at 4 per cent., the minimum being fixed at £9B, were opened to-day. The tenders were found to amount to a total of £9,000,000, Tenders at £99 8s will receive 4 per cent, of allotment j and tenders above that price in full.

[special to press association.]

London, May 27. The Hon. Mr Fraser, of Sydney, writing to the St. James Gazette, complains that the warehouse charges on frozen meat in England are exhorbitant.

Tawhiao, the Maori “ King,” will probably be the guest of Lord Chichester daring his stay in England.

May 29. A severe outbreak of small-pox has occurred in the East end of London,

[Per s.s. Manapouri at the Bluff.] London, May 19. A further development of the colonial policy of Germany is announced. Arrangements are now being made for starting a German colonial bank in Hamburg, with branches in Australia and the East. The capital is to be 30,000,000 marks.