REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 833, 2 June 1879, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. London, May 30. Sir Garnet Wolseley left to-day to assume command at Natal. Epsom Summer Meeting.—The Oaks was won by Wheel of Fortune; Calomandel, 3; Adventurer, 3. Naples, May 30. Mount Etna is in active eruption. Calcutta, May 30. The principal portion of the British troops will leave Jedlalabad immediately on the ratification of the heaty of pe..ee with Yakoob Khan, which was completed to-day. [special.], London, May 30. Intelligence from Canada states that the Priisc.-ss Louise of Lome is encicn te.

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Mi-Liioi-RNE, May 22. The detectives ami police who ar i"jst«d Woih.. rg arc to bo promo Led.

The Government propose lo give power to local bodies to employ rates and endowments for the construction of local lines. Four men were killed in a mine by a cage falling a distance of 250 ft. The Queensland Government have purchased a schooner from the Imperial Government for the coast islands, which are about to annexed to the Queensland territo ?y. .Rich finds are reported at Gympie. May 27. By the judgment in the Ballarat water works case £27,707 is awarded to the plaintifls. A Government inquiry re the Provincial Bank is probable. Professor Pepper will make a tour through the colonies shortly. ttailed—Ringarooma. May 29. Jas. S. Powers, general manager of the " Argus," and an old colonist, died •suddenly this evening, of paralysis.

Sydney, May 22. . In the Council Mr Roberts moved that the Parlimentary Powers and Privileges Bill be discharged from the order paper. The motion was agreed to. Mr Cameron called attention to the fact that the immigration scheme had become a mere traffic in human beings, and that the persons introduced were only fit for a metropolitan life. At the Central Criminal Court attention, was drawn to the fact, that the French Government are about to release from 500 to 600 more convicts from New Caledonia. May 31. The intercolonial boat race between New South Wales and Victoria took place to-day. New South Wales won.

[special to the globe.]

" Sydney, May, 27. The New South Wales men are almost certain to be the winners of the boat race. All the bushrangers in the recent raids have been captured. The Sydney men defeated the Victorians iu chess by. two games. There is a good market for New Zealand potatoes, which we quote at £8 to £9.