LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 191, 17 May 1878, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]

(Reuters, Per Press Agency.)

London, May 11.

The Lock-out in Lancashire is extending. Any settlement at present is unlikely.

Undated,

Viscount London joins the Cabinet

Bismarck reports to have urged on SchouvalofF, during his late, visit, the necessity of peace, both for Russia itself and Europe. ' !

Admiral d-'Horsey, commander of the Pacific Station, has arrived at Panama in the Shah, to watch the movements of suspected vessels.

The negotiations between the Vatican and England to establish diplomatic relations, have been suspended, from a failure to agree upon a basis.

Serious rioting occurred at Darwen, Lancashire. Blood was shed in .an encounter with the police, and the military were summoned. Paris, May 11. The British Ambassador has assured the French Government that England will do nothing in the matter of the Suez Canal without the accord of the French Government. Berlin, May 11. The Russian Ambassador at London visited Bismarck, and then proceeded to St. Petersburg. Athens May 11. After desperate fighting in Thessaly and Epirus, an armistice has been arranged with the insurgents. Cape Town, Undated. The Kaffir rising is extending.