CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 327, 5 September 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(Renter's Telegrams.)

fFROM THELYTTELTON TIMES.) London, Sept. 1. Three per cent consols, 97f. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,750,000 quarters. At the wool sales to-day, 9500 bales were catalogued. The market is quiet. Sept. 2. In the Cape news published on the 29th ult., it was not Trooper Harrison that the Duke of Cambridge censured when releasing Lieut. Carey from arrest, but Colonel Harrison, the Acting Quar-ter-master General of General Wood's column. Constantinople, Sept 1. With reference to the telegram from Athens, dated August 28, stating that the Porte had agreed to the proposal of the Conference as a basis for negotiations for the settlement of the Greek frontier, it is now understood that the consent of the Porte will be subject to important reservations. St Petersburg, Sept. 2. The Czar has arranged to meet the Emperor of Germany at Konigsberg. [Age Special.] London, August 25. King Theebaw claims the entire sovereignty over the Karranee portion

of British Burmah. Lord Lytton threatens war unless this claim is withdrawn. Sept. 2. Several prominent Home Rulers are stumping the southern Provinces of Ireland, addressing large and enthusiastic meetings. Large numbers of amnestied Communists are returning to Paris from New Caledonia monthly in a deplorable condition—clothed in rasjs and debilitated in health.