NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5350, 21 May 1878, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(REUTER'S SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY J EUROPEAN NEWS. St. Petersbuko, May 12. The Russian Ambassador at London remains here until next week to receive the Emperor’s decision, and on his return will call at Berlin and open with London negotiations of the utmost importance. He has brought no written proposals, hut only explains the views of the British Government. May 14. . A semi-official note published here advocates the following ai a solution of the question, viz., preserving the vitality of Turkey and the administrative autonomy of the Christian population as a tributary to the Porte, and giving Bosnia to Austria. 1 Berlin, May 13. No clue has yet been discovered as to the cause of the attempted assassination of the Emporor by a socialist at Leipsic. London, - May 14. . Lord Hartingtoii's motion expresses no opinion as to the policy of the Government. Sir Stafford Northoote will submit the estimate for the Indian expedition on 27th May, when Lord Hartingtoa’s motion as an amend - ment will ba taken. - The Queen has reviewed 16,000 troops at Aldershot. May 15. The Lancashire riots continue. The military force has bean strengthened, but no collision has yet occurred. May 16. ' The Russian agents are negotiating the purchase of ships iu the United States suitable for privateers. ' Negotiations are proceeding between Blackburn and other operatives. Serious riots have occurred amongst tho Strikers at; Blackburn. The - military were called out. A destructive earthquake has occurred at Venezuela. Six hundred persons were killed. 1 Vienna, May 15. At yesterday’s sitting of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies - there was a debate , on the Eastern'Qriestiou, when! the President of tho Hungarian Ministry said that the Government had lately found it necessary to take further precautions for the: conservation: of Auatrian-Hungarian interests, and had strengthened her troops bn the northern, southern, and eastern frontiers. Constantinople (undated). The Russian army remains at San Stefauo, and the British squadron at Constantinople. The intensity of feeling between the Porte and the Russian Commaader-in-Chief, respec ting the evacuation of the fortresses, is increasing. London, May 13. ; Donsols, 96. Bank rate of . discount, 3 per cent, j the market rate is 2|. Adelaide wheat 59a.; flour, 40s. New Zealand Four Per Cents, 103 ; others have risen one half. The British Government have purchased ten acres of laud at Port Said as a coaim g station. Constantinople, May 13. - The Turkish Government maintains tie treaty of Stefano, but stipulates that tlie surrender of tho Schurala and Varna fortresses shall be to Bulgaria, and not to Russia. LATEST. [The following telegram was received at tho New Zealand Times office at live minutes to three o'clock this morning] London, May 18. The Secretary for Foreign Aflairs, in speaking to Lord Hartington’s motion re the employment of Indian troops in Europe, stated that the control of the forces was' secured by the right to refuse supplies. Constantinople, May 17. The Russians are advancing nearer to Constantinople. ' ‘ St. Petersburg, May 17. The Russian Press has assumed a more moderate tone. , SPECIAL TELEGRAM. London, May 16. At the riots at Blackburn and Burnley the military fired on the mob, and five were wounded. Mills were burnt and windows smashed The Australian cricketers have arrived all well. ; An explosion at powder mills iu Paris was followed by an extensive fire, and twenty were killed. - ' Lord Russell is alarmingly ill and is not expected to recover. At a meeting of employers at Manchester arbitration was refused,’arid the original terms were insisted upon. The Russians have been reinforced at Stefane with thirty battalions. ' ! Canada is taking preparations against the Fenians, The money market is easier, . The Bank reserve is slightly better than, last week. The Block markets are steady.-; The com market is easier. - The wool sales opened this afternoon. Tho attendance of homo and foreign buyers was large, but the usual eagerness characterising the opening sales was absent., Prices, : compared with those of the last series, show a slight relapse. Combing wool is unchanged ; crossbreds, faulty, Jd. lower. The Emperor of -Germany has been congratulated from all quarters upon hia 'escape from assassination.

Baker and other English officers in the service of the Porte are actively employed in the defence of the capital. Great reforms are preparing. In the House of Lords, Cadogan stated that Governor Bowen’s signing tho warrants for Treasury payments without an Appropriation Bill was under the consideration of the Law Officers of'tho Colonial Office, and referred generally to Granville’b despatch of 1870, i

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbsdbne, Monday. : 'The Cable Conference decided to adopt Glover’s recommendation that a second cable : between Singapore and Port Darwin should [avoid the Java land line. The subsidy to the Cable Company is not to exceed £32,400, for not more than'twenty years. The reduction on present press rates is to be one-fourth, or 75 per cent. Wilson, Tasmania representative, attaches to his signature a memo, regretting that the Conference declined to entertain the suggestion that the cable connecting Tasmania and New Zealand be treated as a part of a general scheme of telegraphic communication with Europe.