REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 488, 20 April 1878, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

TO PRESS AGENCY. Adelaide, April 19. The Royal Mail Steamship Tanjore, bringing the Suez Mail left Albany (W. A.) to-day at 3.30. Sydney, April 18. Case brandy, 325. All other quotations unchanged. The Government of Queensland has asked for the postponement of the Cable Conference for a fortnight. The Board of Enquiry on the Chimborazo suspended Captain Vine Hall's certificate for six months. The case of the third mate is postponed for a week.

LATEST UNPUBLISHED.

A PACIFIC SETTLEMENT ANTICIPATED. GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS RECALLED. THE VICTORIAN CRISIS. THE BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL RE-OPENED. ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT. EXTENSIVE STRIKE. ARMY MOVEMENTS. London, April 16. The House of Commons adjourned to May 6th and the House of Lords to May 13th. Lord Norfchcote has stated that there is no cause for increased anxiety, or ditninisted hope of a satisfactory settlement of the Eastern Question. Theie was nothing to justify the rumors of England's isolation. He ridiculed the idea of Russian privateering. The Times says there has been an amicable interchange of views between London and St. Petersburg!*. England desires peace, and only wishes the whole treaty to be submitted to the present Congress. Russia has replied that she cannot distinguish between what has been done and what in now desired to be done. She fears diplomatic humiliation if she recognises the Congress as a tribunal which may allow the secret treaty between Russia and Turkey to be cancelled. The Grand Duke JNicholas, in command of the army, returns to St. ' Petersburg, and General ToiUoben succeeds him. This is regarded as a conciliatory measure. Mr Michie, the Victorian AgentGeneral, sent to the papers a telegram from the Victorian Government protesting against any attention being paid to the representations of Colonial absentees who have no political in- ! fluence iu Victoria. April 17. Parliament is adjourned for the Easter holidays. : Yesterday 30,000 Manchester opera- ' tives struck. An extension of the strike throughout Lancashire is imminent. ! Eight regiments of the Indian Army ; and two batteries of artillery have been I ordered to Malta. New York, April 16. Mrs Tilton, it his been re-assertcd, is living in adultery with the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, of the Tabernacle, Bi ooklyn.