CABLE MESSAGES

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 213, 2 August 1878, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES

LATEST EUBOPEAN

(reuter's special to the press

AGENCY,)

London, July 29.

The Marquis of Lome has been offered, and accepted, the GovernorGeneralship of Canada.

There has been more hard fighting in the Transvaal. The British loss is reported as severe.

At the Mansion House banquet, Earl Beaconsfield defended the Anglo-Turk-ish convention on the g/ound that the Berlin treaty was insufficient of itself to maintain a European peace. Console, 95-£; market rate of discount 8 per cent. Wheat, flour and Colonial securities j are unchanged. (special to the presh agency.) ; The Australians are playing against 18ofKeighly. Australians, Ist innings ; seven out for 175. A. Bannerman... ... 55 C. Bannerman 54 Horan, not out 43 There is a large attendance at the match. Undated. The first innings of the Australians closed for 206, and the first innings of their opponents for 204 (104?). Spofforth took 12 wickets for 55. Keighley in their second innings have 6 oat for 38.

July 30. In the House of Lords to-night, Ministers challenged the Opposition to divide on the Eastern Question. Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury, replying to Lords Granville and Ripon, insisted on peace, because it was more likely from their policy that definite areas and boundaries would be obtained.

In the House of Commons, the Marquis of Hartington blamed Government for their neglect of Greece, and denied the necessity of Indian interests depending on the British protectorate of Armenia. The Convention made the

British Empire more vulnerable. Sir C. Dilke and Mr Grant Duff censured the secrecy of the A.nglo-Turkish Convention. Mr Plunket moved an ammendment approving the Government policy. Mr Bourke contended that the Treaty improved the prestige of England, reformed Asia, and opened prospects there of peace and prosperity.

Vienna, July 30. The Austro-Hungarian army has entered Bosina and Herzegovina.