DOABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 409, 6 July 1880, Page 3

DOABLE MESSAGES.

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I (Reuteu's Telegrams.) I London, July 3. H Consols 98§. New Zealand securities H five*per cent. 10-40 loan, 104| ; 5 per ■ cent. 1879 loan, 99|. New Zealand H wheat, ex ship, 475. H The crickot match Auitralians v. Eighteen of Newcastle on Tyne was resumed and concluded to-day, the home H team being 109 behind. Their oppowent in for their second innings, made a very good stand, not being of until their score reached 202. tlx?n, requiring 9G runs HHto win the match, went in for their innings, but want of time preits completion, and vhen stumps tliey had scored 58 runs for wickets. The match was therefore the Australians requiring 38 to and having six wickets to fall.

' An action has been brought in Queen's Bench division of the High Court of Justice, against Bradlaugh, to test the legality of the permission granted him by the House of Commons to make an affirmation instead of taking the enstoaiaryoath. Paris, July 3. The Bill introduced by the French Govrnment for granting a plenary amnesty to Communists founded on a resolution recently passed by the Chamber of Deputies came under discussion in the Senate to-day. The measure as it stood was rejected by a small majority, but an amended Bill was subsequently passed, granting an amnesty to all Communists except those guilty of assassination or incendiarism.

(from the lyttelton times.) In the House of Commons last night a resolution introduced l>s the Government in favour of premitting members to make an affirmation instead of taking the customary oath of allegiance was under discussion. It was debated at some lehgtik, mid finally agreed to by the house on division by a majority of 54 votes. The cricket mutch between the Australians and Newcastle was continued to-day. The former in their first innings scored 222 runs. Murdoch made 117 before he was given out leg before wicket.

July 3

Mr Braudlaugh has taken his seat in the House of Commons,

Colonel ■ Sandford represents the Royal Comission to the Melbourne Exhibition, and starts on July 21.

Cooktown, July 5.

The Eastern Australian mail steamer Bowen arrived from Hong Kong and Singapore with Torres Straits mails. She reports that on the upwards voyage to Hong Kong a piratical plot among the Chinese passengers to seize the vessel was discovered by a conversation being overheard. The passengers were mustered, and all hands being armed, twenty-five Chinese were arrested. Boxes containing loaded revolvers and packed powder with fuses attached were discovered. On the arrival of the vessel at Hong Kong, the prisoners were handed over to the authorities. The Bowen also brings news of the arrival of the New Ireland colonising steamship Genie at Singapore on the 7th of June. She had three feet of water in the hold, and lnr engineers lind deserted her.

The following additional news comes by the Bowen from Singapore:—The engineers of the Genie deserted her at Q4aldive Island, in the Indian Ocean, where the vessel put in on her way to Singapore. News of the most warlike character comes from China. Extensive, military preparations were proceeding in view of the expected outbreak of hostilities with Russia.