REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1149, 4 June 1880, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, June i. Consols, 98|. The mails via Brindisi, pee Orient Company’s Chimborazo, were delivered in London to-day. The match between the Australian cricketers and eighteen of Keighley, in Yorkshire, was commenced to-day. The weather was showery during the play. The Home team went in first, and were disposed of for 102 runs. The Australians then went in, and when the stumps were drawn for the day had scored 56 runs with the loss of 5 wickets. In view of the rebellion which has broken out in Burman, four companies of British regiments, stationed at Rangoon, have been ordered to the front of the English territory to protect the lives and property of the residents should they be in clanger. At the wool sale to-day, 11,800 bales were offered, making a total of 336,290 bales catalogued since the opening. The tone of sale was steadier. During last night’s sitting of the House of Commons, a question was put the Premier, with the object of ascertaining what steps the Government decided to take in regard to the Anglo-Tiirkisli Convention of 1878, by which the Island of Cyprus was assigned to Great Britain, and Asia Minor was placed under British protection. Mr Gladstone, in reply, said his Government intended tb entrust the Colonial Office with the administration of Cyprus, and the same department would see that the necessary reforms in Asiatic Turkey were vigorously prosecuted in accordance with the terms of the Convention.