CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 363, 13 January 1880, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN

(Reuters Telegrams.)

[Special to Mail.]

London, Jan. 10. Three per cent Consols, Australian tailow, best mutton, 40s 6d. Capetown, Jan. 10, The Cape Government are continuing to take steps for the suppression of sedition in the Transvaal, and have issued warrants for the arrest of Keiiger and another Boer. The former was at one time President of the Transvaal. (FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.) London, Jan. 8. The total reserve in notes and bullion !in the Bank of England is £14,750,000. The Union Bank has declared a dividend of 16 per cent for the year. Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the Tay, at the scene of the recent disaster. The rumoured massing of Russian troops on the German frontier is attracting a good deal of public attention in England and Europe. Jan 9. The Earl of Derby, speaking at Huddersfield to-day, referred to the agitation in favour of protection as a remedy for the distress and depression of trade in England. His Lordship said that he was adverse to the proposal of protection, and he predicted that the protective policy of the Colonies would eventually fail. Jan 10. Sergeant Parry died suddenly, the shock killed his wife. Two Chiefs on the Gold Coast have ceded their seaboard to the British. It is Believed that the latter intend to acquire the seaport Popoe, the capital of Dohomey. Jan. 11. A loan has been issued for £130,000 for the Wellington waterworks. Calcutta, undated. General Roberts held a durbar at Cubulon, Jan. 9. He assured the chiefs that the Indian Government would respect the lives, religion, and propety of the Affghans. Berlin, Jan. 5. The Lower House has passed a resolution voting 6,000,000 marks for the relief of the famine in Silesia. Panama,, Jan. 11. The Bacchante has arrived at Barbadoes. The Bolivian troops at Tacca have revolted. [Argus' Special.] London, Jan. 8. Prince Bismarck supports the Company replacing Goddefroy. It is doubtful whether the Reichstag will approve. The Irish distress is increasing. The Mansion House Fund is £14,000.

The Belgian the Chambers to vote Melbourne Exhbition. It is understood that the Su^Hnfs^^H personally answerable for his action in , connection with the recent Mollah mcident. Ir was feared that he was acting under Russian influence, hence Sir A. * H. Layard's pressure. , The duties imposed by the German , H protection tariff have been increased one-third. The result is that the Ger- H man shipping trade has declined. ' H [Age Special.] ;H London, Jan. 9. H Parliament will be asked to grant H £2,500,000 out of the disestablished ■ church surplus funds, to relieve distress. I The Press is favorable. H Tenants refusing to pay rent have I been served everywhere with notice of I eviction. The servers were roughly I used, . I