REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 668, 18 November 1878, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

TO PRESS AGENCY. , LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. -. London, November 13; ... Lord Salisbury, in replying to. the United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs, maintains the justice of the Halifax award, and payment under protest is expected from America. (llndated). Lord Beaconsfield, speaking at ihe Lord Mayor’s banquet, s ■ id ii- regarded the invasion of India as impossible. As t** the Beilin Treaty, he said the Ministry . believed ' all the signatory

Powers intended to enforce the Treaty, but the time had elapsed for its being fulfilled. At any rate, England was resolved to maintain the Treaty by all the force at its command. The Australian Commissioners, at a banquet in Paris, presented Mr Owen with a silver epergno, valued at ,£250.

k November 11. The London papers warmly approve Lord Beaconstield’s speech. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. . Sydney, November 12. It is doubtful whether the proposed Victorian Embassy will be affirmed by the Melbourne Assembly; opinion is divided. i Large shipments of salt, sugar, currants, and sardines have arrived at Sydney. November 13. Arrived —Cuzco, at Adelaide. The Council accepted the agreement for the duplication of the cable. In the Assembly the budget debate is proceeding. November 15. The South Australian Government intend to remove the prohibition on the importation of stock. Brandy, 9s ; Adelaide flour, firm £ll 5s to £l2 ; wheat, 5s Id ; New Zealand wheat, 4s 4d; candles, £4 7s 8d to £4 7s 9d.

November 16

A great number of applications for space in the International Exhibition have been received from England and the Continent of Europe.

Melbourne; November 12.

' Mr Berry’s embassy is exceedingly unpopular, and . anti-Miuisterial meetings meeting are general, at which MrBerry is denounced. • v

[SPECIAL TO THE WELLINGTON POST.]

London, November 12. ; Important advances have been made by the .Russians in the direction of Balkh. >,

Lord Northbrook has attacked Government on the Afghan policy. / The Czar is said to be peacefully inclined. The situation is therefore improved. [SPECIAL ’TO THE GLOBE.] London, November 10. Disraeli's 1 speeches are reassuring, ffe. has stated that no power has vet intimated any intention of disobeying the Treaty of Berlin. November 11. 1 The Mahomraedan inhabitants of -Bosnia petition for annexation to Austria. I ■■ v Kr ‘ ■ ‘ ■