LATE CABLE NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1117, 29 April 1880, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] Bluff, April 2(3

The Australian papers brought by the Ringarooma contain the following telegrams :

LdNDON, April 12. The Channel Squadron has been despatched to the Azores to search for her Majesty's ship Atalanta, tha training ship which succeeded the Eurydice, when the latter was lost. Nothing has been heard of the Atalanta for seventy-two days. Her crew numbered 300 souls.

April 15. It is rumored that the Right Hon. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, will be raised to the peerage, and that he will be succeeded by Sir John Holker, Attorney : General. The Morning Post expresses approval of Mr Service's political programme, and believes that, when, the finances of Victoria have improved, a policy, in the direction of free trade may be adopted. The result of the general election in England has been watched with great interest upon the Continent. The enormous majority obtained by the Liberals, and their immediate accession to power is regarded by the European statesmen as an indication of the intention of England to resume her old pdsition of isolation.

The now German Army Bill, which proposes to add annually about 30,000 men to the forces of the empire, is being eagerly discussed in the Rieclistag. . The Bill provides for the creation of eleven new regiments of Infantry, vyith forty batteries of artillery and one battery of engineers, causing an increased annual outlay of £1,000,000. Professor Lyon Playfair has been reelected in the Liberal interest for the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews.

April IG. The contest for the representation of County Cork was an exciting one. Colonel Conlthurst, and Mr William Shaw, the former members, both Home Rulers, were supported by four Bishops and a hundred priests, and returned by a large-majority, beating Mr Kettle, the Parnellite candidate. Mr Parnell has been elected for three seat's.

The Daily Telegraph strifes that Prince Leopold has been created Duke of Albany. • A compromise lias been effected in the Bagot will cases, the mother and minor 'receiving £33,000 and their law costs. The Very Rev. Charles Ryle, Dean of Salisbury, has been created Bishop of Liverpool. Abdul Rahman claims to bo recognised as Ameer of Afghanistan. Baron De Lesseps intends visiting the principal towns of Great Britain for the purpose of promoting his Panama Canal scheme.

A difficulty has arisen botoen Portugal and China in consequence of the latter claiming Macao. Russia supports Portugal, and it is stated that the British and Russian envoys at Pekin are acting in concert.

It is stated that M. John Emile Lemoinne has been appointed Ambassador for France at Brussels.

, The Empress Eugenie, accompanied by Sir Evelyn and Lady Wood, has arrived in Capetown in good health. She purposes to proceed immediately to Natal, and from thence to the spot where the Prince Imperial was killed.

• . April 17. It is reported that an unsuccessful attempt has been made to poison the Emperor of Russia. The Pall Mall Gazette considers that the long up-hill work of the late opposition in Victoria should encourage the vanquished party in Great Britain. The Gazette pronounces the programme of the Service Ministry equally as liberal as that of the_ late Berry Government, though less noisy and mercenary. The sugar market is severely depressed, reduced rates ruling. Wheat has declined 2s, owing to large American arrivals.

The weather is propitious for the grain crops, and tho market has a permanent tendency downwards.

April 10. The Times, Daily News, and Daily Telegraph, have lately published special articles on the Australian colonies, with the view of awakening public interest in the development of colonial produce. Twenty-seven addresses frem Bulgarians have been presented to Mr Gladstone. Renewed applications have been made to the British Commission on behalf of America and France for increased space in tho Melbourne International Exhibition.

A telegram from San Francisco states that on Saturday last a terrific explosion occurred in the town of Berkeley, in California, by which a gunpowder manufactory was blown up, and thirty persons killed. A large number of persons also were seriously injured. The disaster is said to have been caused by the negligence of one of the employes.

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