REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 571, 26 July 1878, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

TO PRESS AGENCY. London, July 24. Major-General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley has left for Cyprus. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, July 25. The Government decided that the new loan shall only be a million and a half.

The barque James Service, bound for Melbourne from Calcutta, with a cargo of castor oil, nitre, and sacks, was totally wrecked on the Murry reef, Western Australia. All the crew ajxd passengers numbering seven, are believed to be lost-

Melbourne, July 26. In the Council Sladen’s Reform Bill passed its second reading. The Post-master-General supported the Bill, with the following amendment:—Omission of plurality of votes, and addition of division of Provinces.* He said he differed from his colleagues on the subject of reform ; but if his conduct was likely to embarrass, he would resign his portfolio.

In the Assembly the' debate re purchase of the Hobson Bay railway lasted till after midnight, when the purchase was affirmed by fifty-two to nine. Probably a loan for the purpose will he immediately placed on the London market. LATEST UNPUBLISHED. ITALY AND THE CONGRESS. Rome, July 24. The Government has instructed the Italian representative at Vienna to disavow, on the part of his Government, any participation in the recent democratic meetings relative to the demand for Trieste and the Tyrol. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, July 25. The Postmaster - General, differing from his colleagues on the question of the Reform Bill, has resigned. Stevenson, warehouseman, and the other defendants concerned in alleged Customs frauds, arrested under a warrant from the Crown, Lave been' admitted to bail.