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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 293, 9 May 1879, Page 2

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(from the lyttelton times.) • j! jLondon May £. j Mr Berry sails to-morrow, and Pro-j fessor Pearson remains. Mr Berry is the bearer of ' from the Secretary- of State for the; Colonies, regretting the want of a greaterspirit of accommodation or both sides.; He rejects Mr Berry's proposals to amend the Constitution ■ by^: imperial ' legislation, W'epttreme'emer-J 1 _geiicy,tb.aß arisen justify sucK mea-| sures. The readiest means t harmonise! , the two Chambers would be to. make! ' both Oonhcil' and Assembly - The Chambers should act <like the Bri- ! tish Parliament arid tHe' ! Council should; yield to public opinion in order to avoid| a conflict. Bills of Supply' should be, limited to provisions 'analogous to the ; English Bills ; the Council shxxuld claim! no right in dealing with them than thej House r of Lords possesses. ' ■"' - The Daily Newt publishes a paragraph! stating that the Prince of,' Wales will ■visit the Melbourne Exhibition. ; May 6. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a question, said *th>t \tith a view fo an early settlement ne di£l-j

culties in Zululand, instructions ha been sent to the Governor and High. Commissioner to abstain from a policy of annexation, and to confine their efforts to the protection of the Colonies fro m danger. Dr Isaac Butt, M.P. for Limerick and leader of the Home Rule party in England, is dead. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, said that the Government -would accept the Russian interpretation of the Treaty of Berlin. May ,7. Capetown news to April 23 states that movements' .preparatory to the British advance into Zululand hare commenced. The - actual British adyancestakes place in a fortnight. :I ... Constantinople, %ay, 7. The Russiani-ha-vV 'evacuated Roumelia. . , J." - -. ••jjA : ilaus_ Special.] ■; ■' :>'•:.' . r -■: J ' < LojffcoK,:MflT^T ■ The wool sales opened 1 to-day ; 71383 catalogued, Port Philhys preponderating. ..The.attendant wafc large and pompejatton? f keen.r -Prions, jjange about the same as last series , concluding rates." " ; 'of6'ss-bred's are very fain: •\ y> ■••»'! v - •': 5 News from AJfe&anistaiii "states that the frontier tribes' 3 _6s£r ' to a pkcfr ike passes .of 'thej British protectionj "themselves becoming subjects of the Queen. yHanlon, the in the sculUhgmatdhion May 5.

.V. .:fCSPECI4Ii.TP / THB-MAl&,] .L -'.-::; .11 -[Beutbe's.-TeIeAMMW]-:; , r •■ •' ; / - : 'SyirtißTi Miiy»Br ,: V The Return''ball , to, jMayqrkst nignfr was'crowded.' ' The .Liejifcenant- _ Governor was _ _ Arrived—-Hero, from Auckland. .:■.:.;■ 'ji Melbourne, May 8. ' The'season :d£ politicalij&ctMty is expected to commence-immediately. A largeTmeetiiig of tHe Opposition party In the. Assembly was held r yepfcerday to cedsider ,the'situation. .TKe.'general feeling was in favor. of supporting Mr James -, Service's programme of 1878. Several Ministerial speech :s are expected ehortly.- - ■ • • ■ : ArriVed—Rotorua. - (fbom the lytteltok times.)" Sydney, May 6. The;sentence of death, on the:Hatfield bushrangers has been commuted, and they have received lengthy terms of imprisonment. Three of them will 'jg kept in irons. [Special.J May 6. Sir B. O'Loughlin has, received a summary-of the Embassj's dispatch, and has posted a notice, congratulating the public on the'resaU of th'etfniasion. It reportedf in .London that the ' Prince of Wales has definitely decided to visit the Melbourne Exhibition. - ■" "May"'/.., • Uord Nomianby has . directed. ; the publication of a summary r of the Embassy despatch". If ' the ' Council refuses to I coincide with reasonable proposals - re ' financial relations, of the Chambers, and ■ after their , coflstitqents have I 'again "reject the measures of the "Assembly, Imperial interferences will be iiavoke'd.- ' '■'." ■'■ \[J i .. i —.. \' f