News by the Mail.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7986, 24 November 1905, Page 2

News by the Mail.

THE UK.UN mY.DE. - ■ A l'(JK!,A\h, Nov. 21 A dispatch Iriiin Chicago, 'datol October says t he Ainer can grain lra<le is .inst beginning to realise that Uurope is practically barren " f u " coarse grain supplies, and unprccedcntvd salr.s 'of new corn, which this year is 'o:' exceptionally g-ood tjnality. is one i;f the signs of the Commercial barometer. ,The sales within two 'days were more thaujtwo nvllion bushels of malt barley. At this ! point alone 'is another sig-nifi-cent pointer, a.f t!.e| 'agents of foreilgu houses are | scouring the 'market everywhere, and picking up all available December wheal, which is I,ring greedily snapped up 'by Europe. more especially itussia,'which is woefully short of wheat. Odessa, (the loremost wheat centre of Europe, is iiractically -an empty, port. 'Phis year Canadian exporters 'have bven clipping inio Manito'ba, sending just enough to the European markets -to keep the price down until they can get possession of the entire North-west crop at their own price. The farmers ol the .N orMi-wc^l, 'being in an limtevrlopi'd country, have no storage facilities, -ami must semi their wheat to market. H is 'going into elevators at Moirireal awl. other points on the east 'and on the I'aci' tic Coast, -and 'when nil is cleaned prices will umlou'btehly -lake a sensational jump. The price of corn is also rising, the advance being over .">0 per cent., as compal'ul with prices in August. This causes- hardship among - the poor, and there is a of the 'duties on corn being abated.

THIS ISOEK COLON.Y IX MKXIC'O JSKOKBX f|>. : SAX FUANCISCO, Oct. 22. After the vicissitudes t»f tin; past lew years, the JJoer colonists in 'the State of Chinahua. Mexico, are (lisbanding, through tli-c-ir inability to secure a clear title to I heir lands. The last party which left (he colony included General Viljoen and his lamily. Viljoen is hard hit by t'he lailure of the colony, which he founded, since he bore the 'burden of Ihe transportation of the families. Some other Doers sacrificed all 1 ' itfoey had to leave tile Transvaal, General Snyinan and faniilt are practically the only Boers ;left at the colony, and lie will appeal to -the Mexican Government to give him a clear'title.

111 H CUIXKSK AIUIY. PEKixn, Oct. The army manoeuvro just completed, -have impressed foreigners, especially Hi eye acquainted with the Chinese troops five years, ago. The opinion vxpresswl on all sides is that China lias accomplished an absolutely marvellous feat in raising an army of 'IO,OOO men to its present eHiciency. Thv foreign military attaches criticised the ■generalship displayed, for nstanee, Ihe absence of proper suptfQrf, for -art ill,cry, which t'hey thoug'lvtj iji judiciously placed, but gave unstinted praise for the compjefe control of the troops, and the steadiness of the discipline exhibited, the latter bearing comparison with that of European troops.

a Ncmuuors euimix at,. SAN KK'ANCISCO, Oct. 122. Thy police ollicial.s of Berleloy have discovered thai 'the 'man who as« saulled KlUs. the Australian hoi'Belnan. is a noted criminal namcO ' Milton Franklin Andrews. llis photograph is positively identified as that of 'lho man who murtlerod Jim boaiitiful IVssie .Hon ton, then his wilV. at Colorado Springs en October ."it'll, IiHM, though the fealurw were 'destroyed by ink and Tlk; police arc scouring" thv country for Andrews, a reward of two Ihousaml dollars 'bving l offered for his capture. Ellis has recovered.