REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 762, 10 March 1879, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. London, March 4. Mr Berry decided to offer three millions of the Victorian loan at 98 cum. div. A site on the Thames Embankment is offered for the Colonial Museum. The failure of George Francis Dickenson for £60,000 is announced. March 5. Papers relative to the "Victorian deadlock are published. A despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, February 17th, said had Governor Bow en originally acted in accordance with the views which induced Ministers partially to retrace their steps, the financial difficulty might have been overcome without any objectionable measure. Wheat, penny higher. Prince Tewtik, the heriditary Prince of K«ypt, has been appointed President of the Council of Ministers, and Nuliar Pasha appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.. March 6. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the bank of England to-day was L 18,500,000. Total stick of tallow in London by to-day's return is £14,500 casks. London papers :of to-day violently attack the conduct of Lord Chelmsford, commander of the British forces in Natal, and demanded his removal from that position. 'Paris,-March'S." The 'Chamber of Deputies to-day voted an additional 250,U00 fiancs'for the representation of France at the Sydney International ' [special.] London, March 6. r

Yakoub is deserted ami : unable to quell the. tribal disputes about the'succession. He "has retired to He£it. ; ; It is rumoured/that there is a serious qiv rrel between the " Czar . and the Czarowitz. .'•','".',.''.,", .','.'." ,'*"' : r ' '"'"' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Ageucy Company.telegraph, under, date London, 3rd -March'.:.—',' VVpoI competition is .decreasing, and quotations are-on the average £d to Id lower ihan at the opening. '■' The- principal decline has been' in cross-hieds. See'dy and burry wools are. neglfected.; •; : > '!' The proclamation ; of. the death of Shere AH and the succession of Yiikoiib Khan caused an outbreak iii ; 'Afghah-i istan. The chiefs were and Yakoub fled. " ' "' ' ; •-''" '/'^ The Czarowitz has quitted the palace, in consequence of the quarrel with the Czar. ■ { LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS, f M ELBOIRNE,.March 5. Miss CarinichaVd is now Vane, arid is about to lie married.. .* Captain Joijes the Victorian is engaging Q ieeusl .ud native policemen. There was ration on the departure of the Governor. His daughter is affiaiced to a >q natter. There has been a bounteous rainfall. The wheat ma ket in Adelaide is verv active. Heavy shipments sire being made to England. ■"■■•■' : March 7. Return match—English, first innings, 248; Victorians, first innings, 112 for six wickets. Sydney, March 8. Owing 1 to the financial: difficulties of the Corporation, a series of resolutions recommending the stoppage of all expenditure, and the'discontinuance.'of lighting tho streets have been tabled for consideration at the next'meeting Governor Robinson was entertained at a banquet at the Reform Club last night. There was : alarge attendance^ Black trackers will searchthe Strath--bogie ranges independent of the police of Victoria.

There is a serious split amongst the! Newcastle miners, and great reduction; in coal wages is anticipated. ' ,