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, • - , London, June 3. Colonel Gordon, RIE., known as " Chinese Gordon," has resigned his iposition as Pri- ! rate Secretary to the Viceroy of India. The total reserve in notes and buliion in ■ the Bank of England is £15,375,000. \
At the wool sales to-day 8,500 bales were offered, making a total.qf 354,300 catalogued since the opening^ The tone of the sale was steadier. 18,000 bales have been withdrawn from sale since the opening.
The Australians commenced their match to-day against Eighteen of Burnley, in Lan- > cashire. There was a good attendance of . the public. The Australians went in first and made a score of 148, of which Murdoch made 56, and was run out. The Eighteen then went in/ and when the stumps were ; drawn for the day had made 19 with the loss ', of nine wickets. Consols 98f , ex dividend. '- ' ' ' June 4. In the House of Lords last night, the new Burials Bill was read the second time. The measure provides that the burial of dissenters should he permitted in church yard cemeteries without the recital of the Church of England service. . Constantinople, June 3. Midbat Pasha has tendered his resignation to the Sultan, who has, however, not yet accepted it. June 4. The question as to whether the sentence of death passed upon Mahomed Veli, the assassin of the Russian attache, Colonel Conneroff, should be carried out still remains unsettled. The Sultan desires "that the sentence should be commuted, and has referred the matter to the Ulemes, who will decide upon the course to be pursued. The Bight Hon Mr Goschen, the newly appointed special Ambassador to the Porte, had an audience to-day with the Sultan, and expressed the hope that the Sultan would take speedy steps to bring about the necessary reforms in- Turkey, so that the prosperiy j of his subjects of all races and religions ' might be assured. It has not transpired \ what answer was returned by the Sultan. Pabis, June 3. M. Bochefort has been severely wounded in a duel. Rangoon, June 4. Information has been received that a party of Burmese. rebels who had been on a foraging expedition, but had been defeated in an encounter with the :.Burmese troops, have crossed the frontier into British territory. New; Yobk, June 2. Arrived— Barque Aberdeen, from Auckland,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 134, 5 June 1880, Page 2
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