Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 590, 10 March 1882, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(Special to the Mail.;

(Reoteh's Telegrams.)

London, March 7

At the wool Hale to-day, 9900 bales were catalogued. A firm and active demand was experienced. Combing wools are animated. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 6 per cent for the past half year. In the House of Lords to-day, a Bill requiring that members of Parliament shall make a declaration of their belief in God, was introduced by Earl Bedeadale, and read a first time. Mr Miles, Conservative candidate, was elected to-day for Malmesbury vice Air \Y. ! Powell. ) Obituary—Edwin James, the well known ex Queen's Counsel, who some years ago was disbarred.

The death is announced of Earl Walton, aged 83.

March 8,

Telpgrams are to hnnd announcing that Mr Evans, special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian has heen arrested at 11'imusH for alleged collusion with the Dalmatian insurgents. He is now confined in t»aol.

Intelligence is to hand from Morocco that a severe conflict has taken place at Fizniz (sic.) Fiquis. a town near the Algerian frontier, between bodies of Moorish soldiery and French troops. No information as to the cause of the encounter or its result has yet been received. The Irish Judges of Assize, in their addresses to the juries at ttie opening of the Courts yesterday, took occasion to lament the alarming continuance of agrarian crime in Ireland, and the fact that in many instances the perpetrators of outrages remain undetected.

Berlin, March 8.

The Prussian Parliament has rejected the Bill which was introduced by the Government for enlarging the scope of the law of July, 1880. A measure has been passed for the subordination of Protestant and Roman Catholic Clergy to the Mate.