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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 473, 4 February 1881, Page 3

From the Lyttelton Times

London, Jan. 31.

The steamer Protos has been chartered for two more voyages between Australia and London to bring cargoes of fresh meat and other articles of food.

A Gazette of to-day announces the appointment of Sir G. W. Dcs Vcoux, the Governor of Fiji, to the Assistant High-Commissioncrship of the Western Pacific.

Consols are unchanged at 97£ ex div. New Zealand securities remain ; t last quotations. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 50s ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 3-ts ; New Zealand wheat ex ship, 43 ,

In the House of Commons to-day Sir Chas. Dilke, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was questioned as to the present state of the negotiations for a settlement of the Greek frontier difficulty. In reply, he stated that the question of holding a conference was no longer under consideration, but that it had been agreed that the Ambassadors

of tho Powers ;tt the Turkish and Greek Courts should negotiate in tho matter, and th'TO was every hope thai united action would bring about a peaceful solution fit" (ho frontier difficulty. Mr Childers. Secretary for War, in reply to a question, said that tho total reinforcements expected to arrive at Durban, Natal, by Feb. 30. for service in th* 'Vrnnsviia', was -1.500. Ho added that the Boers had not committed any outrages, and they would ho treated according to tlie rules of civilised warfare. Feb. 1. The death of Mrs Anna Maria Hall, the Irish authoress, is announced today. The debate, in the. House of Commons on the Irish Coon-ion Hill was resumed last evening. Mr Gladstone refused to agree to the compromise which was demanded by the opponents of the measure, and insisted that a division should bo taken. Tho IVish mom hers have, however, resumed their obstruction, and tho. debate continues. A ladies' section of the Irish Land League has been initiated in Dublin.