REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1101, 10 April 1880, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

♦ BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 7. The Board of Trade returns of imports for the past month amount to .£37,625,000, being an increase of £987,500 compared with last year. The exports for March reached a total of £18,812,500, being an increase of £2,687,500 compared with March 1877. April 8. A Liberal demonstration took place to-day, at which Lord Hartington made a speech. He denied the statements which had been made to the effect that the Liberal party was divided, and said it was more united than it ever had been. The remarks recently published in a London newspaper that Theebaw, King of Burmah, was dead, is entirely uncot)6rmed. The wool market is strong. The arrivals to date for next auctions amount to 280,000 bales. There is a fair demand for most descriptions of hides. Berlin, April 8. The Emperor of Germany refuses to accept the resignation of Bisruark, who consequently remains in office. Vienna, April 8. Baron Von Haymerle, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made an application to the Austrian Parliament for an extra grant of £IOOO for the proper representation of Austro-Hungary at the Melbourne Exhibition. ♦— LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, April 10. It is understood that the Government intend to re-employ Mr Gordon, irrigation Engineer, who was dismissed by the Berry Ministry. A first dividend in the Provincial and Suburban Bank liquidation will be payable shortly. Sydney, April 10. The steamship Wakatipu has arrived. Seven stowaways were found after her departure from Wellington. In the Legislative Council last night a letter was read from the Hon. W. B. Dalley, tendering his resignation. An anti-Chinese meeting was held last night at which a petition to Parliament was adopted, praying for the immediate passage through the Legislature of an Act of one clause requiring that the steamer Brisbane, now quarantined here with 215 Chinese, and with some cases of small-pox on board, depart immediately without discharging under a penalty of £20,000. Brisbane, Aprl 10. A Commission has been appointed to inquire into the case of the heavy mortality which has taken place among the Kanakas on a plantation near Maryborough.