CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 318, 5 August 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

(Reuter-'s Telegrams.)

[Special to the Mail.]

London, August 2

The Secretary of State for the colonies in. tlie House of Commons last night, declined to produce papers relating to the Australian defence, and regretted their publication in the colonies. Berlin, August 2. - Germany and the Yatieanhave at length come to an amicable agreement as to the status of the priesthood and Catholic subjects in the German empire.

(from the lyttelton times.)

London, July 31. Five per cent. New Zealand, 104 to 104*. The English harvest prospects are improving. The weather has been showery for several days. The harvest is a month late. The European harvest prospects are unfavorable, except in Russia. Tlie prospectus of the Panama Canal lias been issued ; capital, £16,000,000. The official statement of Admiral Amnon, of the United States Navy, declares the Panama route to be impracticable. Supplementary army estimates have been asked for Zulu war for £3,000,000, converting the surplus shown in the Budget into a deficit of £1,163,000, which the Colonies will have to reimburse. The deficit is proposed to be met *by Treasury bonds. August 2. Capetown news to July 15 state that Lord Chelmsford has resigned, and is returning to Durban. '' , Three per cent Consols 98. Total reserve hi notes and bullion in the Bank of England £21,375,000. Arrivals of wool to date 320,000 bales. Tlie total probable quantity to be offered, including that left over from last auction, is 350,000 bales., St. Petersburg, August 1. One hundred arrests have been made in one State by the Grand Duke Constantine. . * Paris, August 1. The French Chambers have prorogued. The Chamber of Deputies has reduced

the Bishops, and raised the salaries of the priests. The Senate Committee rejected M. Ferry's Education Biil. Constantinople, August 1. The evacuation of tho territory of Roumelia is finished. [Abgus' Special.] London, July 31. Mr Hornby has published a letter in the Telegraph relative to the cricket disturbance at Sydney, and declares that Lord Harris' statement contained the truth, and nothing but the truth. [Age Special.] London, July 30. Serious riots have taken place in Philippopolis between the Bulgarians and Mussulmans. Dangerous consequences are feared. - A deputation interviewed the' British Government for the purpose of expressing opposition to the granting of a dissolution until Parliament considered the whole Eastern Question. Catherine Webster, previous to her execution, confessed her crime. New Zealand debentures are in active demand. " August 1. Mr Gladstone's article in the Nineteenth Century denounces .the British foreign policy in connection with the Berlin Treaty, Afganistan and the Zttlu war, and considers that Lord Beaconsfielcl has entered |into obligations impossible for the nation, to fulfil, Whilst Home legislation has been utterly? neglected. ;. and that the Liberals, are justified in having recourse to' obstructive tactics. Gouni,£!hambord has issued a manifesto reiterating his adherence to Legitimist principles, and declaring his willingness to await the course of events y in France. The Hon. H. C. E. Childers telegraphs to Mr Berry that .Mr J. C. Mills withdrew his resolutions relating to the Victorian crisis, because he considers Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's Embassy despatch well calculated to settle-Ihe dispute, and that it was inadvisable to risk a controversy with the House of Commons.