LATE CABLE NEWS.

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

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] The.following late cablegrams have recently appeared in Melbourne papers just hand ; London, May 19. Earl Carnarvon, who resigned the position of Secretary of State for the Colonies in the late Government, on account of his disapproval of the steps taken in regard to Turkey, has affected a reconciliation with his party. Sir R. Peel, who had likewise taken up a position adverse to the late Government on similar grounds, has also again thrown in his lot with the Conservatives. The Pall Mall Gazette comments strongly on the finances of New Zealand, contrasting the excessive debt

per head as compared with that of other Australian Colonies. May 22. Earl Beficonsfield, in the House of Lords denounced in emphatic terms Mr Gladstone’s letter to Count Karolyi, the Austrian Ambassador in Loudon, in which he explained away the statement regarding the aggressive policy of Austria. Lord Salisbury- declared that the position taken up by Mr Gladstone was unworthy of a British statesman. No intelligence has been received of H.M. T raining ship Atlanta which has been missing since February last, and is supposed to have foundered with all hands off the Azores. The Lords of the Admiralty offered a reward for any information which may throw light on the fate of the ship or the whereabouts of any cf the crew who may possibly have escaped to some island. The Rump rebellion, suppressed some months ago, is again showing signs of activity, and measures of precaution have been taken. The Indian Government troops are in readiness, and any outbreak will be sharply and severely dealt with.