LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2766, 3 August 1885, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IRE UTEII'S TELEG RAMS. ] !'y K:,KCTUic; Tki.i-kjuaimi—Coi'vitumT. ■*-&-*■ WELLINGTON - MANAWATU RAILWAY LOAN. NATURALISATION OF THE PRINCESS BEATRICE'S HUSBAND ELECT. FEDERATION ENABLING BILL. QUANTITY OF WHEAT AFLOAT. LOUIS RIEL, THE INSURGENT, PRONOUNCED INSANE. STORM OF WIND AND RAIN IN PARIS. August 3, 0.30 a.m. London, August 1. Tenders for the residue of the Wel-lington-Manawatu Railway Company's loan, amounting to £160,000, at 5 per cent., with a minimum of £9B, will be opened on the 7th inst. A bill providing for the naturalisation aw an English subject of PrinceHenry of Batimburg, the husband elect of the Princess Beatrice, has been passed by both Houses of Parliament. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the representative of the Government in the House of Commons, has assured Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, that the colonial Federation Enabling Bill will be passed daring the present session.

July 31. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,120,000 quarters, or 10,000 quarters less than last week. Adelaide wheat is 35s 6d; New Zealand ditto, 28s to 345; tallow, Australian beef, 28s ; mutton, 30s. New Zealand frozen mutton, 4£d to sd. Ottawa, August 1. Louis Riel, the half-breed insurgent, taken prisoner by General Middleton, bus been examined by medical experts, who pronounce him insane.

A terrible storm of wind and rain swept over Paris on June 20th. Cellars were flooded, railways washed out, and many buildings in progress of erection were damaged or demolished. A section of one of the streets sunk into the sewer, and twenty persons were plunged into the water. Most of them were almost in a dying condition when rescued. A boat containing twelve persons, was capsized on the Seine and several persons were drowned. In the department of the Yosgels seveu houses and two bridges were destroyed by the floods.