LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2542, 14 August 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

»•■* [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM OYER SCOTLAND. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

GORDON RELIEF EXPEDITION. (Received August 14, 0.50 a.m.) London, August 13. A terrific thunderstorm passed over Scotland yesterday. Much damage was done to property in the path of the storm, and several persons were killed, by the lightning. Lord Londerdale who was out shooting daring the storm, was struck by lightning and now lies in a precarious condition. Cairo, August 12. Sir Evelyn Wood will probably command the expedition which it is proposed to despatch to Khartoum in October for the relief of General Gordon and the garrison of that town.

[special to press association.] London, August 8. The Standard states that the terms offered to induce depositors in the old Oriental Bank to take np shares in the new company indicate that the scheme will be but feebly supported. The River Nile is rising fast, and serious consequences are anticipated from the floods.

August 9. The Australian Meat Preserving Company has been registered with a capital of £IOO,OOO. The applications received from Great Britain for shares in the new Oriental Bank Company amount to less than half a million:

The Tory party are delaying the passage of the Federation Enabling Bill. Sir Stafford Northcote has intimated that lie will warmly support the measure if it ho introduced in October. Information received from Trinidad states that Mr Frederick Palgruve Bailee, C.M.G., died there on Friday last, aged fifty-seven. Mr Bailee was formerly Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, which position he resigned and in 1877 was appointed to° the Governorship of British Honduras. Judge Paul, of Queensland, who has been on a visit to England, returns to Australia by the s.s. Iberia. Australian wheat cargoes are selling at an average of 395. The harvest iB proceeding rapidly, both in England aud on the Continent. The frozen meat ex the ship Wellington is averaging per lb. August 11. Information from the Soudan states that the rebels have captured Galabet. France threatens to seize Aniov uvikrs tie indemnity is prici. biv Stafford Northcote aa* asked Mr Gladstone to introduce the Federation Enabling Bill in the autumn. The Cape Colony Government has annexed the Waldisch Bay district. Two officers of the Spanish army, who took part in the abortive republican, rising in April, have been executed

at Gerona. Most extraordinary efforts were made to save the doomed men, but the Government remained firm, wishing to make an example for the sake of discipline. The cholera in Toulon ia increasing slightly. The deaths are now averaging fifteen daily. A terrible panic prevails, and 40,000 out of 69,000 taxpaying inhabitants have fled from the city; 6000 left yesterday. The cases at Marseilles present an average of four daily. Most severe regulations have been established at the Spanish and Italian ports and frontiers against all arrivals from France. At the Pyrenean frontier, all travellers entering Spain from France are obliged to perform several days' quarantine.