LATEST EUROPEAN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 401, 8 June 1880, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(Rkuter's Telegrams.) [Special to Mail.] London, June 5. At the wool sales to-day 830G bales ■were offered, making a total of 372,600 catalogued since the opening. The firm tone which marked yesterday's sale was again sustained. Homeward mails via San Francisco New Zealand dates April 24 to 27,' were delivered in London to-day. . All necessary arrangements have been made for the approaching European Conference to be hold at Berlin. Lord Odo Russell, British Ambassador at .Berlin, and General Sir Lintorn Simmons will represent England. The ~jFow"crs to be represented at the Conference have agreed to take the question of the Greek claim first into consideration. . The British Government are making ■efforts to prevent any serious conflict occurring between Montenegro and Albania, and hopes are entertained that a peaceful solution of the difficulty may be secured.

(FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.) r) London, June 8. Consols, 98§ ex div. June 4. Best Australian mutton tallow is today quoted at 85s per cwt. The total stock of tallow in London ou June 1 was 17,100 casks. New Zealand wheat, ex ship, is at 48s. At the wool sales to-day, 10,000 bales were offered, making a total of 864,300 catalogued since the opening. The tone of the sale was firm, and there was a better demand for cross-breds. The oricket match between the Australians and Eighteen of Burnley, in Lancashire, was concluded to-day, and resulted in a victory for the Australians in an innings with 27 runs to spare. In the second innings of the Burnley men, Spofforth took 12 wickets in 15 overs. The Australian team has now scored its fifth win, with ore draw in its favour, and has not yet lost a match. Constantinople, June 4. The question as to whether, the sentence of death passed upon Mahomed Veli, the assassin of a Russian attache, Colonel Commeroff, should be carried out, still remains unsettled. The Sultan desires that the sentence should be commuted, and has referred the matter to the Ulemas, who will decide upon the. course to be pursued. ' . ; The right Hon G. J. Goscheh, the new;y-appointed special Ambassador, to the Porte, had an 'audience to-day with the Sulfcan. Mr Goschen expressed a hope that the Sultan would take speedy steps to bring about the necessary reforms in Turkey, so that the prosperity of his subjects of all races and religions might be assured. It has not transpired what answer was returned by the Sultan to Mr Goschen. 'Rangoon, June 4. Information has been received tha fc the party of Burmese, rebels;- who had been on a foraging expedition, and were defeated in an encomd." with Burmese troops, have crossed the frontier into British territory. Later. The insurrection jA Burmah is rapidly extending. A sevOre encounter has taken place between a force of Burmese Government troops and a body ot rebels. The former were defeated and their commander captured by the rebels and beheaded. The four companies of British regiments which were ordered to the frontier of British Burmah have . aheadv started.