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Kumara Times, Issue 851, 23 June 1879, Page 2

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[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. London, June 13. The wool sales were continued today and prices were firmly maintained ; 291,900 bales having been sold since the opening. June 19. At a Conservative meeting last night, Sir Stafford Noithcote made a statement to the effect that he anticipated the Zulu campaign would be brought to a successful conclusion before the prorogation of Parliament in August. Paris, June 19. A Congress of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies was held at Versailles today, when it was resolved to amend the Constitution, by transferring the French Chamber to Paris, as was recently proposed by the Government. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, June 17. The following vessels have sailed from London for New Zealand from April 20 to May 9 :—Loch Cree and Burniah for Wellington; Cockermouth and Thomas Stephens for Otago ; Ironside and Kildonan for Auckland; Lurline and Merope for Canterbury. Sydney, June 19. The schooner Goust Peacock, bound from Queensland to Sydney, timber laden, has been wrecked off Newcastle. The sailmaker was drowned, but the rest of the crew and passengers were saved. The vessel was owned in Sydney by Messrs Pi obey. Adelaide, June 19. The Legislative Assembly last night passed a vote of £300,000 for Education, and rejected a resolution regarding the fiuancial administration of the Ministry. This is tantamount to a vote of want of confidence. Sailed ; Wakatipu, for Wellington. Brisbane, June 18. His Honor Sir James Cockle. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, has resigned. ■ '— June 20. _ A large public meeting was held last night, at. which resolutions were adopted condeimiiug the policy of the Government.' . :.•••-•■, [special.] Melbourne, June 18. ,*'The Kelly sympathisers purchased from a Melbourne gunmaker 400 rounds of ammunition, suitable for a Spencer rifle, similar to the one the Kellys secured at the time of the Mansfield police murder. It is reported that they have succeeded in eluding the police. June 19. The full dispatch from Sir M. HicksBeach to Lord Normanby has been published. He urges the people to dismiss the idea of conferring uncontrolled supremacy on the Assembly, and condemns the tactics adopted. He has seen no proposal which he deems free from objection, and hardly anticipates that Parliament will consent to disturb, at the instance of the Colonial House, the settlement embodied in the Constitution Act, unless the Council refuse to concur in a reasonable proposal as to future relations on fiscal matters, and persist, after an appeal to the constituencies has ratified the Assembly's proposal.