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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 82, 4 April 1873, Page 2

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London, March 27,— Rounbey has retired from the Mastership of the Rolls. The Dacota's New Zea'and mails have been delivered. The Imperial authorities have, resolved not to deal with the Suez mail proposals till the arrival of the February mail. The Russian Government refuse to permit newspapers correspondents to accompany the Kbiva expedition. The Russian forces are ready to march upon Khiva, ; The Kerghese refuse to join the Khivans. The Mooltan arrived at Galle on the 24th inst. At a banquet at the Mansion House, Mr. Gladstone declared that there was nothing to regret or to be ashamed of in his retirement from and return to office. The principle of the. lrish University Bill was indestructible: In northern Spain the Government troops show a disposition to revolt. The Cortes voted the abolition of slavery in Port Rico. Sir J. McCulloch leaves for Melbourne in June. Earl Kimberley wili immediately introduce a Bill to give the Australian colonies facilities for fiscal intercourse with each other. There have been large arrivals of Californian wheat at Liverpool, at lis 6d per cental. ; New Zealand hemp quiet. New Zealand fives 104, sixes 113. Money is scarce. Sperm oil £95, tallow (mutton) 40s. to 455, (beef) 39s to 425. Metals quiet. Tho Central Queensland Meat Compmy are issuing £14.000 of eight per cent debentures. At the Liverpool wool sales there was a decline of a penny to twopence on good to inferior* Two hundrrd agricultural laborers have left for Queensland. In the House of Commons Mr Gathorne Hardy moved that the Governmsnt inform the various Powers that .dissented from the principle upon which the basis of the Geneva award was determined that the rules of the Treaty of Washington rendered the observance of neutrality impossible.. Mr Gladstone said in reply that" the Government would ask. the ; United States ,to. withdraw the rules and substitute others, and they would then submit them jointly tb the Powers. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr Gladstone stated in theiHouse .of Commons on the 25th instant, that the award of the arbitrators would not come out of the present surplus L revenue. , ' Money Wigram died on the 24th. The Roman Catholics have appointed a thanksgiving day for the overthrow of the Irish' University Bill. An Atlantic Telegraph Company is announced with a capital of £8,000,000 which is to absorb the existing Companies. .■■ The ' French budget for 1874 shows and estimated expenditure of two thousand five' hundred and twenty-three million francs, and a revenue of two thousand five hundred and' twenty-six million francs. . .; ,- «. - The National; Agricultural Union has resolved to .petition the, Colonial-: Governments to grant free.passages to agricultural laborers. •■- --- • Mr Lowe promises to consider the expediency of inquiring into the Bank Act .authorising the Government toy suspend a >ank charter oa emergency. ■?„ ], 'j' '.. ' '-'. ' Xy-.\ "', ■. Sir Daniel Cooper, .has Written to Earl Kimberley advocating the retention of Sydney as the . postal terminus of the Australian Colonies. Thirty jtons ; df! preserved* meats'- have arrived from South America. . :?; '' * -"V [?.' vli . The, University boat race; between ,Oxford<andi Cambridge" "takes" place on Saturday; J 2ottilnst. The betting is sjxjltp tfpur in "favorccf Cambridge. , ; A-Je-^M-^sd^illvte/'madeiioi' Spain; to..pnti: dpwh;th&fc«listß^ vV; :i;:'y ! has cohtradtedfaib^ ->„ I Count Bernstoff, -the , German Anabassaidor in: ; ;Ik>ndo.n£w;d^ : -.y