CABLE MESSAGES.
(FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.)
LATEST EUROPEAN.
London, Feb. 28.
The colours of the 24th Regiment were found under the dead bodies of the British officers. The killed, wounded, and missing at the battle number 1500 British and Native. -
Mr Berry submitted written proposals that the Assembly should be empowered to reform the constitution. Should the Council decline then to dissolve, the Bill to become law without the consent of the Council. If Sir M. Hicks-Beach declines his proposals he will then propose that S.r. M. Hicks-beach and himself should arrange a scheme which the Imperinl Parliament would pass, should the Comiiil object to it. The Secretary for tho Colonies abstained from expressing any opinion, and is likely to give a written reply. Sir M. Hicks-Beach invited the.emhsssy to dinner on March 12.
Tho. loan is deferred till the political position is settled.
The stock market has recovered a firm. tone. ' ,
Australian securities are remarkably firm.
Prices for wool are weak and show a downward tendency.
Wheat has advanced a shilling. New Zealand, 42s to 465.
March, 2.
An obstacle to the fulfilment of the Berlin treaty has arisen. Russia objects to Turkey occupying the Balkans, nnd thinks that after the evacuation by herself, other Powers should watch the Bulgarians.
Lord Chelmsford will assume the strongly offensive. ,
A fishing party of five were drowned at Newcastle.
Consols, 96^;- New Zealand 5 per cent, 108£.
Sailed—Chimborazo
The mails via Brindisi,per Aconcagua, have been delivered.
Yakoob Khan has written a letter to the Viceroy of India containing overtures for the renewal of friendly relations with the British Government. The letter adds that news has reached Cabul of the death of Shore Ali,
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 275, 7 March 1879, Page 3
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281CABLE MESSAGES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 275, 7 March 1879, Page 3
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