REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1118, 30 April 1880, Page 3

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

’. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Lcrnoox, April 27. GonSOlk, 99 Adelaide wheat 4961b5, ex warenouse, 63 s. New Zealand Five Per Cent Loan £104; new Five Per Cent Loan, £lO9. At the wool sales to-day 8,700 bales Were offered, making 70,200 bales catalogued since the opening. Prices continue to be firmly maintained. - April 28. The following ffirtheV appointments to Gladstone’s Ministry are announced : Earl Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Earl Spencer, .Lord President n of the Council; and the Bnke of Argyle, Lord Privy Seal. Sir Charles Dilke is appointed ParllanYentary Uuder Secretary of Foreign Af fairs. Mr G. Shaw Lefevre, becomes ’■Secretary to the Admiralty; Right Hon. W. P.. Adam, Commissioner for Public Works, and Buildings.; Mr ’Chamberlain will also enter the Cabinet. The Marquis of Ripon is appointed Viceroy-of India. The Right Hon. ’John Bright has been appointed 'Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the office he held in the last Gladstone administration.

The annual meeting, of the shareholders of the Orient Steam Navigation Company'took place to-day. The Report of the directors declared a dividend at the rate of five per bent per annum, and carries forward t £6OOO to the reserve fund. The Chairman, in his speech at the meeting, said that the 'steamers of the Company, would .be ■fitted with cold air machinery for ‘carrying meat or freight for all comers like ordinary cargoes. He further announced that t'he capital would be iA’creased to one million.

Berlin,.April 29. The German Parliament has rejected ‘the Bill which was introduced for the purpose of grafting a subsidy to 'the 'South Sea Trading Company, which took over Goddefroy’s business at Satnoa.

St. Petersburgh, April 28. It is reported that another Winter -Palace explosion has been averted.

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

.. .. Melbourne, April 28. The Rotorua has arrived from the Bluff. She missed the English mail outward bound.

. , . April 29, The Orient Company’s steamship Sorata, which leaves Melbourne on 4th May, will take the Suez mails brought jby the Rotorua, but which missed the P- and 0. Company’s steamship Assam, ’outward bound yesterday. At a Cabinet meeting held yesterday, It was resolved to introduce an amending Land Bill,'during' the next session of Parliament with a view to relieve selectors from the hardships they are the present law.

Sydney, April 29. In the Legislative Assembly, Fitzpatrick’s motion of censure "on the ’Government, for n Fusing ,to legislate on the question of mining on private property, was negatived by a large ma-. -

Albany, April 28. The P. and 0. Company’s steamship, Malwa, with the inward Suez mail, has arrived in King George's Sriund.