LATEST CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5222, 17 December 1877, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

(REUTER'S SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY.) LATEST WAR NE WS. RUSSIA’S OPINION OE PLEVNA. WINTER QUARTERS OF THE BRITISH FLEET. THE SITUATION IN FRANCE. STANLEY'S RETURN. [The following telegram was received at the New Zealand Times office at fifteen minutes to three o’clock this morning] : London, November 30. Sulieman Pasha states that the Russian loss at Kadokoi was 2000, and the Turkish loss 900. A Times telegram from Vienna states that the Russians have come to the conclusion that Plevna will hold out for some time. The British fleet has been ordered to winter in Besika Bay. Corporal punishment has been abolished. Stanley has arrived home, and, has been banquette d. MaoMahon assured Grevy, in an interview, that there was no danger of a coup-de-etdt and refuses to listen to such a solution. A petition is being signed throughout France for a congress of both Chambers to consider the crisis. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, Saturday. Mr. Berry, at the Beechworth banquet last night, fulminated against the action of the Council in rejecting the Appropriation Bill. He said that the consequences would be the stoppage of the railways and mail services, and non-payment of the public creditors. He referred to the perils of such a course. The rejection of the Bill was the act only of madmen. There are capital entries for New Year’ B Day race meeting, Sydney, Saturday. Mr. Farnell is forming a Ministry. The Bank of New Zealand has purchased the extensive premises in Pitt-slreet now occupied by the Australian Mutual Provident Society for £23,000. Commercial,—Hennessy’s case and cask brandy unchanged ; rice, 225. and 235.; Adelaide flour, £ls; Adelaide wheat, 65.; no New Zealand wheat or oats in the market ; sugar and tobacco unchanged ; sperms, 9Jd. to 9Jd. Adelaide quotations for wheat, 55.; flour, £l3 a ton. The City of Sydney sailed yesterday for Auckland.