BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 850, 2 August 1878, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

—o—(By Caulk.) (Prom our Dunedin Exchanges.) London, July 24

Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley. who has been appointed Governor of Cyprus, has left for that island. The Salisbury banquet was a great success. Parliament has been invited to make provision for the Duke of Connaught’s marriage. The question of the Clare election was referred, on the motion of Sir Stafford Nortbeote, to a select committee. July 26. Parliament will be prorogued on the 20lh August. The political agitation amongst the Italian Democrats is now subsiding.

It is contemplated to send a Pontifical Nuncio to England. The House of Commons agreed to grant the Duke of Connaught another LIO.COO annually, and LOOOO a year to the Princess Louise Margaritha in the event of her becoming a widow. India will annex the island of Socotia, in the Indian Ocean. Rome, Inly 24. The Italian Government Lave instructed their representative -at Vienna to disavow, on the part of the Government, any participation in the recent democratic meetings that support a demand for Trieste and Tyrol. Vienna, July 27. The Porto consents to the Austrian occupation of Eosuia and Herzegovina. London, July 27. The Russians have occupied Shum’a. It is officially' denied that Parliament will be dissolved in the autumn. Juiy 2!). The Marquis of Lome has been appointed Governor General of Canada, ia succession to the Earl of JDufierin. There has been more hard lighting at the Transvaal. At the Mansion House Banquet Lord Beaconslieid defended the Anglo-Turkish Convention on the ground that the Berlin I reaty was insufficient of itself to maintain European peace.