LATE CABLE NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1140, 25 May 1880, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

Wellington, May 18. The following cablegrams' appear in the Australian papers brought by the Wakatipu ;—■ London, May 6. Owing to the state of the weather, and also to the foreign political outlook and the uncertain harvest, the prospects of improvement in trade which existed in February have gradually warned, and trade is not likely to rally till harvest. Iron and steel has fallen nearly 30 per cent. The appeal to the Lords Justices of Appeal whether the Judge who sentenced the claimant had power to make two sentences consecutive has been heard and adjourned. The strike of the iron workers is Subsiding. May 7. A telegram to the Daily News states that Bavaria supports Hamburg in its protest against the inclusion of the lak ter in the German Zollverein. : It is

believed that the German Reichstag will reject the proposal. The Duke ofConnUUght met with rather a painml jujUidenfe out for a dvivfe. The Cixrriagd.4lp.set, and thh occupants were He waft considerably braised ahpnt the face} arms', and legs,; but m>, bones wore brokem *•" The GfodfttdhC in an electioneering.. apaach, th&b hhtt EnVp&rof of Austria had. expressed am xiety that the English ejectors would vote for the party hat created a - of discus* sion in the Austrian- official circles. The Emperor is*,understood to have attached no importance whatever to the repotted Utterancte.,b!tit, tlrfongh the representations of Si tv. Henry Elliott, the English Ambassador at'Vienna, the British Government has h<isn communicated with oh the frank explanation has by the English GoVerhihdht to >the Coart at Vienna repudiating the oopplexion put on Mr Gladstanes electioneering utterances. ....... Miss Mftriatt thfe novels known as George EUjot, has been riedj and is Uo,w Mrs Cross.