REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 903, 22 August 1879, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. London, August 19. Heavy rains have fallen, causing disastrous floods in the North-west of England. The wool market is steady. August 20. The electoral campaign has opened. The foreign policy of the Government will be the watchword of the Opposition. Sir Charles Dilke, at Chester, expressed astonishment at the continuance of the present Ministery, who only maintained their position because they encouraged the idea that war was imminent, and they alone were mindful to maintain the dignity of the Empire. [special.] London, August 20. The Liberals are actively preparing for general election. Gladstone made a splendid oration at Chester, and fiercely denounced the Government. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MEr.BounNjfi, August 21. An unexampled scene of violence took plare in the Legislative Assembly last night between Mr D. Gausou, member for Ararat, and ttou J. B. Patterson, Minister of Public Works. The division on the Budget is expected to take place to-ni?ht. A large steamer has been chartered to tako a trial shipment of preserved meat from Sydney and Melbourne nrest.Tved by tlitt air refrigerating proeess. A London telegram, dated August iKlh, .Stat.:-; that owing to phylloxera and the ramy weather, the brandy vin-f.;-.ge> Iras ■•■■ mi nearly de.-,truy i: d. New Zeaim.d barley, 7s. 3d. Tiio ;se*'amt!e dUturbances arc

exaggerated. No real necessity for dispatch of military. A man named Turly attempted to cut the throat of his sweetheart. Bray, the Lance Geld robber, states th it no revolver was used ; the only weapon he had was a meerschaum pipe case. Low -was wanted for a ferocious assault on aii Italian. He decoyed him into the bush on the pretence of having discovered a reef, and then struck him a murderous blow on the head with a pick j he then went and ransacked his house. August 21. The Australian corvette Heligoland has arrived, bringing the Commissioners and exhibits for the International Exhibition. Brisbane, August 21. In the Legislative Assembly the Opposition are opposing the Loan Estimates. The i 100,000 vote for immigration has passed. [special.] Sydney, August 21. dotterel 1, the inventor of the wreckraising apparatus, proposes to form a company to raise bullion ships on the New Zealand Coast. Melbourne, August 21. In the scene in the House, Gaunson accused Patterson of cattle duffing, and called him a whelp, cur, and scoundrel, and bandied threats of violence. The bank robbers say that the accountant was in abject fear, and the inhabitants of Laucefield disgracefully ditto.