REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1392, 18 March 1881, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 15. Three Per Cent Consols, 99|. New Zealand securities are unchanged. In the House of Commons to-day, addresses were voted to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, expressing condolence with Her Majesty and their Royal Highness on the death of the Emperor of Russia. The Right Hon. John Bright has addressed a letter to the Press, in which he says he is very hopeful that peace may be secured in the Transvaal, and adds that he will expert his utmost influence to bring about the same. The homeward Australian and New Zealand mails via Brindisi, and via San Francisco were delivered here to-day. St. Petersburg, March 15. Rousakoff, the assassin of the late Emperor, has now made a full confession of his crime. A Nihslist manifesto has been issued, referring to the assassination of the Czar in terms of exultation at the success of Rousakoff’s attack. Several arrests of Nihilists suspected of having been directly instrumental in the issue of the manifesto have been made. Capetown, March 15. Telegrams have been received from Natal to-day, announcing that 1000 Boers of the Orange Free State have left the Transvaal to join in the hostilities against, the British. Intelligence is also to hand from Natal that it has been arranged that a Conference shall take place on the 18th (Friday), between Sir Evelyn Wood, President Brand of the Free State, and M. Kruger, President of the Transvaal Boer Republic, with the object of discussing proposals for peace. Constantinople, March 17. Definite information has transpired regarding the results up to the present time of the negotiations which have been proceeding during the past three weeks between the Powers and the

Ottoman Government, with a view to determine the Turco-Greek question. It is now known that the Porte recently consented to cede Thessaly to Greece, but the European Ambassadors were at once unanimous in declining to to accede to tbis arrangement, declaring that the proposed transfer of territory was totally inadequate to supply the legitimate demands of Greek Government, and the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin. The Porte thereupon expressed its willingness to cede the Island of Crete to Greece, but absolutely refused to surrender the Province of Epirus, which it was provided by Berlin Treaty should form part of the extended Greek frontier. It is not known what reply has been returned by the Powers to this last proposal of the Porte. ♦ LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, March 17. A Board, consisting of Mr Bosisto, Professor Ellery, and Messrs M'Gowan, Newberry, and Phelan, has been appointed by the Government to inquire into and report on the Cerebus torpedo explosion. Sydney, March 17. In the Legislative Assembly, to-day, the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Public Works, introduced his Public Works Statement, in the course of which he announced that it was proposed to undertake the construction of several additional lines of railway in the Colony, involving an expenditure of £8,750,000. The debate on the proposal was opened, but was adjourned till Tuesday next. A sculling match, for £IOO a-side took place to-day, on the Clarence river, near Grafton, between Rush and Pearce, two well-known oarsmen, and resulted in a victory for the former. News from the Mount Bi'own diggings gives a very unsatisfactory account of the state of the field.