LATE CABLE NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1132, 15 May 1880, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.]

Bluff, May 10. The following additional cablegrams appear in the Australian papers to hand by the Kotorua ;

LotfnoK, April 29. Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has reassured the Austrian Ambassador in London of the friendly feeling of . the Government to* wards Austria, with a view to more effectually calming the irritation produced by Mr Gladstone’s speech. The Cliinese. Government in blockading the Portuguese port of Macao is enforcing an old claim. The rupture threatens to be of a serious nature.

It is currently expected that Mr Gladstone intends reducing the 3 per cents, to per cent., and that he will propose the abolition of the income tax. ■

The Daily News states that Abderrahinan Khan, a cousin of the ex-Ameer, Yakoob Khan, has offered to submit to the British Government. He denies that he received Russian aid during his exiles, from Afghanistan.

April 80. The following additional appointments in connection with the new Ministry have been announced ;—The Earl of Morley, Under-Secretary for War. The Marquis of Lansdowne is Secretary for India ; Sir Robert Peel, Uuder-Secretary for the Home Department.

May 1. Earl Cowper, K.G., has been appointed Viceroy of Ireland, and proceeds immediately to Dublin to enter on his duties.

The Royal British Commission in London has undertaken to make all necessary provisions for the representation of British exhibitors to the Melbourne International Exhibition.

Sir Cunliffe Owen, who represented British interests at the Paris Exhibition, has been appointed executive commissioner.

Mr Geo. Collins Levey, secretary of the Melbourne International Exhibition, has left England for Melbourne by the Lusitania.

There have been serious inundations in Arragon, one of the north-east provinces of Spain. Several more important liters, having their rise in the Pyrenees, have overflowed their banks and caused much destruction to property in many towns and low-lying countries. Since the attempted assassination of General Loris Melikoff by Wladearsky, who was a baptised Jew, all foreigners of that nation in Russia have been kept under strict police surveillance. It has been discovered that the would-be nsaasair, had accomplices amongst them, and General Melikoff acting under the plenary powers conferred by the ukase of the Czar, has issued a proclamation ordering all foreign Jews to leave St. Petersburgh. May 3. The various European Ministers accredited to the Chinese Court at Pekin, have applied to their several Governments for squadrons in order to protect the subjects of European Powers, in view of the present aspect ot of affairs in China.

The Pall Mall Gazette has changed ownership, and will henceforth appear as a Liberal paper. Mr Frederick Greenwood, the editor, and the whole of the staff have declined to remain wder the altered conditions, and intend sMjjting a new organ. _ General Sir Donald Stewart having completed his arrangements for the security of the British position at Ghuznee, has proceeded to Cabal. On arrival there, he is senior to General Sir F. S.

Roberts, and, acting in accordance with instructions from the Viceroy, he assumes the supreme command of the operations in Afghanistan, superseding General Roberts.

Disquieting intelligence has been received concerning the fidelity of the Maharajah of Cashmere. Grave suspicion has been aroused by the discovery of facts which indicate that attempts have been made by Russian emissaries to tamper with this ruler, and there is reason to believe that the Maharajah has been to some extent implicated in Russian intrigue. Mr Childers has withdrawn from the Victorian Board in connection with the Agent-Generalship,' and has telegraphed to the Victorian Government three names from which to select his temporary successor.

The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the deadlocks between Legislative Chambers, says that constitutional arrangements do not work well in all the colonies, but it hopes that Mr Service's expedient will put matters cm a sound basis.