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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 400, 4 June 1880, Page 3

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(Reutek's Telegrams.) [Special to Mail.] London, June 1. j Consols are qunlcd at 98£ ex div. from Zenlnml securities. Australian and New Zealand breadstuffs and Australian tallow remain unchanged. j At the wool sales to-day, 11,800 bales were offered, making a total of 336,200 bales catalogued since the opening. The tone of the sale was steadier. June 2. During last night's sitting of the House of Commons, a question was put to the Premier with the object of ascertaining what steps the Government had decided to take in regard to the AngloTurkish Convevtion of 1878, by which the Island of Cypress was assigned to Great Britain, and Asia Minor was placed under British protection. Gladstone, in reply, said his Government intended to entrust the Colonial Office. with the administration of Cypress, and the same Department would see that necessary reforms in Asiatic Turkey were vigorously prosecuted in accordance with the terms of the Convention. In view ot the rebellion which has broken out in Burmah, four companies of the British regiment stationed at Rangoon have been ordered to the frontier of the. English territory to protect the lives and properties of residents should they be in danger.