CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 57, 14 March 1879, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(ItEUTEK : 8 TELEGRAMS.) Sydney, Tuesday. Tho steamer Bonnie Dunndee ban been run down by the steamer Barrabool near Newcastle, and sank in a few minutes. Four female passe n gers werr drowned. All the crew ware saved. — - — - Arrivei— Zamboanga. ..'-...■ JDoivboN, March 17* ,/ Negotiations for the purchase of the Australian cable, for the jfufpoSS of connecting Aden and Natal, are broken off temporarily,, but a favorI able issue is expected. ' ■ ■ Berry has written a letter to the $ I banks, stating that' the balance of the loan will not be offered for eighteen mouths. •-!■

• March 8. The money market is easier ;barik T ! minimum unchanged. Discount rates in the open market are falling. Business on the stock exchange is dull. The market for Colonial Government debentures is steady. . .

The tone of the wool market is relaxed. Prices hare receded. The fa'lis most strongly marked in cross- v * breds ; inferior greasy, medium t!o, good, steady ; superior fleece" iiji [ grease, fifteen to twenty per cent | below last February rates. The corn market is steady, with „ t an upward tendency. New Ze&Lwa ' r wheat is selling, ex store, per 49&Vba. t ' • i according to quality, at 44s to 48s. The Spectator, in a moderate article, , condemns Berry's proposals, and &xig- "'\ "; l \ gests the alternative of securing final- ! ity without abolishing the Council. •■» March 10. The Board of Trade returns of exports for the laßt month continue very ■•'*' unfavorable. . / ' :, !; The Polytechnic has been totally l ' burned. : ' ! In consequence of ,th^ difficulty of, . . an economic settlement' about Cuba, 1 • the Spanish Ministry has resigned. A new Ministry has been formed by Ohambos. Wheat, £d. higher. Tallow, lower. A treaty has been concluded between Germany and Samoa. The text of the treaty is kept secret. Land settlement ispostponed. The • position is unchanged by the treaty. Civil war is imminent. i : ", ; , According to the latest Cape news the general situa tion in Natal is un: changed- . Colonel Pearson has repulsed at^ ' i ' ■ attack by a large number of Zulus '-' on his position at hkowe. The enemy was defeated with enormous loss, The hostile attitude of the native kibes in the Transvaal causes great anxiety. March 11. The Polytechnic Institution was only partially destroyed by the late*^ fire. Berlin, March 8. The German Parliament rejected the Parliament Discipline Bill. Ro^e, March 8. Sentence of death h^s^been passed on the perpetrati^-oftne- attempted assassination of ;tfre King of ltalyxoft : the 17th November last. Constantinople,, March Hi 7 > The British ironclad squadron re* turns to Bessika; Bay in a few. days* The Turkish troops, have rreoccuii . pied Adrianople. ; ' ; St. Petebsbtjbo, March 11. A Russian ofticial statement has, .] been pubUflhed,! : stating, that ?tiufc--.j. plague ha^. disappeared from Astray .ti chan. .■.■;!,'■!(