Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 423, 10 August 1880, Page 3

Telegraphic News.

LATEST EUROPEAN. ■; '' *~~~. —" '. (Reuters Telegrams.) [SrECIAL TO THE MAIL."] \> i - ! London, August 7. / The total quantity o f wheat afloat for ' Great Britain is 16,701 quarters. , Consuls 98£ ; Australian mutton tallow, 36s 6d ; beef tallow, 34s 6d ; Adelaide flour ex warehouse, 36s 6d,; Adelaide wheat ex warehouse, 48s 6d ; New Zealand wheat, c.f i., 425. The s.s. Northumberland arrived at Plymouth yesterday from Australia. The .English -op&rations'have commenced. >"''i '"•'"'■ ; New York, August 17. Dr-Tanner /has finished his forty fast, and is now in a very emaciated and exhausted condition. Adelaide, August 9. The P. and 0. Oo.'s s.s. Malerva and the Orient Co.'s Chimborazo have arrived here. i( Melbourne, August 9. The Governors. of, all.the Australian j ; '■! >■'■', ■'.')•■■ ■-. ..< •'. i■ ; - Colonies have accepted an invitation to the of 'the Exhibition.;* Sir HerculeV Robinsori 'has ! of course been obliged to decline,; ■:>"; \ f\ Captain,Payne, harbormaster.herej has ? been suspended from' his' position for neglecting ito notify the, removal of the foghdm frorii the harbor.

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?: '" t ' r ' / ' " London, August 6*' Sir Hercules Robinson will, it is stated, succeed Sir Bartle Frere as Governor of Cape Colony.'' ;:' ■' •■''. '" ' ' ; The Right Hon/W. E. Foster,- Chief Secretary for Ireland, made a speech in the House of Commons torday, in the course of which he said that he deplored the rejection of the Irish Tenants Compel! sation Bill by the House of Lords, but trusted 'that the-favorable harvest prospects would alleviate the condition of the farmers, and he appealed to the to U6e their influence to preserve order. In consequence of the rejection of the Bill troops ;have been ordered to Ireland, as disturbances are feared.

. Mr Gladstone still continues to make satisfactory progress, and goes to Hawarden in a few.days. He will in all probability appear in Parliament before the prorogation takes place. Official confirmation has been received regarding the evacuaticn of ■ Cabul. General Roberts marches to-morrow, and tlie other British troops have been withdrawn from Gandauiak. In- tho House of .Commons Mr Foster stated, in answer to a question, that it was not expected that any disorder would take place consequent on.the removal of the troops , from Ireland, as other regiments would he spnt to, replace drafts for India in the districts, where agrarian outrages had been committed. " August 7. Lord • .Claud, Hamilton : his defeated Mr Samuel Plimsoll, for Liverpool, in the election for a seat in Parliament. It is announced that Sir Arthur Gordon, 'Governor., of...,Fiji,-;has been appoiated Governor of New Zealand, and that Major George Cumine Strachan, Governor of Tasmania,'will act as deputy at the Cape until the arrival of Sir Hercules Robinson from New Zealand.