CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 380, 12 March 1880, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

latest European: (Reuters Telegrams.) [Special to Mail.] London, March 9. Consols 97f. Wheat dull, prices unchanged. At the wool sales to-day, 6,700 bales were catalogued. Biddings were firm. March 10. The Royal Commission has approved of the proposal that the funds of the Church Surplus should be applied to the purchase of waste lands in Ireland. Paris, March 9. In the French Senate to-day, Jules Fevay's Education Bill was under discussion. The clause prohibiting education by Jesuits was rejected after a lengthy debate having taken place on the subject. (from the lyttelton times.) London, March 8. It has been announced to-day that Parliament will be dissolved at Easter. The general elections will take place louring April, and the New Parliament will, it is expected, be summoned for despatch of business at the beginning of May. Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will submit his Budget statement to the House of Commons on Thursday next. March 9. The Premier, Earl Beaconsfield, has issued a manifesto addressed to the Viceroy of Ireland, in which he invites the opinion of the country on the ques tion of the maintenance of the unity of the British Empire. His Lordship further asks Ireland to express an opinion as to the necessity or otherwise for the predominance of English influence in the Councils of Europe.