CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 97, 12 August 1879, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

♦ 1 ! (eeoter's telegbams.) ■"■■;! London, August 6/ The new loan of £100,000 for t&e City of Wellington has been issued. Markets are unchanged. August 7. Earl BeaoonsfieU, alluding to the distressed condition of the agricultural districts, uphold the English land system as against tho peasant proprietary. The House of Commons has passed through committee the Irish Univorsity Bill. All amendments wore rejected. A despatch from Sir Garnet Wolseley states that the prospects of peace were good, but quiet and security would be impossible while Cetewayo was at large, and therefore it was the intention to te-occupy'Ulundip Capetown, July 22/ 1 Sir Garnet "Wolseley informed the submitting Chiefs that they were not for the future to rogard Cetewayo as the King, and that the country wduld be governed and the people proteoteSd by the British Government. ,7/ Colonel Clark and Sir Garnet Wolseley are about to proceed' to Ulundi, and Colonel Newdegate:ad*vances simultaneously to a position near Cetewayo's kraal. Berlin, August 7. The Emperor of Austria has been on a ; visit to the German' Emperor.** „ , , SYDNEY^jFriday. Hennessy's case brandy, 325. 6d. to 32*. 9d. ; quarter-cask,' 9s" ifo 9s. 3d.; 1 New Zealand batsj 2s.' '^of ; A maize. 2s. 6d: to 2s. 7d. per busnj -^f candles, D.E.J., U. perlb. ' Ail^ The floods are increasing; ''ana^a heavy fall of snow has taken ;place;' Over a thousand sheep are'i'dpbrfced as being drowned in the cpuntrv districts. ' ', ' There was a heavy^giU^on |;he coast last night. - s ' * London, Aujftist 8. Three per cent, consols, 975, Best Australian beef tall .>w, 32s j

best Australian mutton tallow, 345. Total stools of tallow in London at date, 10,000 casks. August 9 - Mr Newman Hall has obtained a f divorce after a protracted trial.. The House of Commons by a 1 large majority sanctioned the Peninsula and Oriental mail contract. Madrid, August 8. The King of Spain, »vhile returning from the funeral of his second sister, Infanta Marie del Silar, was thrown from his carriage through its upsetting, and dislocated his shoulder. It has sinoe been re-set. Sydney, Sunday. Mr Williamson has obtained an injunction to restrain the performance of " H.M.S, Pinafore." The weather has cleared up throughout the colony.