REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 888, 5 August 1879, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] . LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. London, August 1. A lengthy letter from Lord Harris replies to one published by Mr Gibson. August 2. Cape Town news to the July states that Lcrd Chelmsford had resigned the comraauder-in-chiefship of the forces in Natal, and was returning to Durban. Three Per Cent. Consola are now quoted at 98. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £21,375,000. The arrivals of wool up to date are 32,000 bales. The Secretary of State for Colonies in the House of Commons last night declined to produce the papers relating to Australian defence, and regretted their publication in the colonies, Paris, August 1. The French Chambers have been prorogued. The Chamber of Deputies reduced the salaries of the bishops and raised those of the priests. The Committee appointed by the Senate M. Jules Ferry’s Education Bill. St. Petersburg, August 1. One hundred Nihilists have been arrested. Constantinople, August 1. The evacuation of the territory of Roumelia has been finished, Berlin, August 2. Germany and the Vatican have at length come to an amicable, arrangement as to the status of the priesthood and Catholic subjects in the German Empire. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, August 4. The official landing of Lord Loftus takes place to-morrow. The floods at Tamworth have subsided.