CABLEGRAMS.
LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
(reuter'b special, teb. tress agency.) St. Petersburg, April 5.
It is semi-oflicially stated that England merely prefers objections, but that if she made definite proposals Russia would endeavor to make them the basis of an agreement. April (3.
Prince Charles of Roumauia lias informed Prince Gortschakoff that the Roumanian army may be crushed, but never disarmed.
London, April 5. Consols, 94g ; rates of discouut and securities, unchanged ; Adelaide wheat, 59s to Cls ; flour. 40s to 445. The wool sales have closed; 230,000 bales were catalogued, and 37,000 held over. April 6.
The British ambassador at St. Petersburg reports that if the cession of Bessarabia is resisted Russia will take steps forcibly to disarm the Roumanian army.
A panic in the Stock Exchange continues. The bank reserve is ten and a half millions. The stock markets are recovering. Consols, 94|. Australian securities continue depressed. Much, languor was shown during the concluding days of the wool sales. The corn market is unchanged. Adelaide is in good demand at sixtytwo an'd sixpence. April 7. The ironclad Triumph has reinforced the Pacific squadron; the Benalowe (query Benbow) has reinforced the Mediterranean. Caffir news is disquieting. Constantinople, April 6. The Russian forces have received orders to embark from Bojukdere. [Also, Bujukder—a town on the Black Sea, and north of the Bosphorus, near its confluence with the Black Sea.]
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 603, 8 April 1878, Page 2
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