CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1201, 21 February 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. ;kkctei:\s tklkcham. iv.n press association) Lo>~do>*, February 19. The total rese'rvo i:; notes and bullion' in the Bank of England is L 16,025,000. At the wool auctions during the past week, J. 0.300 bales have been catalogued. The general ion.e of the sales is firm, and wool is in active demand. . Sr- Pjetersboegh, February 10. It has been ascertained that the mine under the Winter Palace 1 was fired by a battery at tho time the family,:attended by servants, were actual!}' entering tho saloon. A number of the latter were seriously injured. The affair has caused great seiuatign. and a large number of arr.ests have taken place in consequence.

(til'gCIAL TO PKESS ASSOCIATION.) Losdon. February 19. Colonel Colley succeeds Sir Garnet Wolsley.

February 20. For the Waterloo Cup, Honey wood was first, Plunger being runner-up. (SPECIAL TO Tni: MF.LBOUUNK Alt'!U.S.) London", February 20. Th.e .Canadian Board of Trade suggested to the Jsj:gl:sh Associated Chain beis of Coinmerce to pons'.ene a conference to put trade on v, sounder basis. • ; The British and . C'oloniq,! ; Chambers arc arranging for .a prellininary.'conference <if colonists resident, in Great; Britain to d{:-ide whether there shall be a meeting of .Colojiii].} r>jid Homo delegates next year. So/ae er.aited personages were impl'.oatpd jn the ouiragp at phg Palace, ttt, ' "

(special no the aiEXxoncrESE age. ) London, February 21. Colonel Colley, military secretary to the Viceroy of India, has been appointed successor to Sir Garnet Wolseley at Transvaal. Mr. Hannay, a resident of Glasgow,-, has disco vered a process .-of making artificial, idiambtidi:-, "V.v' v/" > -C : y~-i' m ! DE&ECT AOST-KALIAN ? NEWS. ki fj?\ f*"/ *; f ' f, » /.(SPECIAL* 'So profs. ASSOCIATIONS); ike- • v , ebruafy2p V 'v, Mressrs. Mfirray have been returned to Parliament unopj posed. All the others have had their seats contested. Twenty-one horses have paid up for the Australian- Cup.- ; Stiwarrow is'Vthe'ch?ef favorite at 100 to" 15. Secundus; Sweet-meat,-and Darriwell are,, fairly, supported.,, Cavali Goyziieta, a resident of Melbourne, hti's be.en appointed Italian Consul': for Australasia, with jurisdiction in New Zealand/and"Fiji. Thei mail steamer Assaijvwas; grounded 1 for several hours in Hobsori's Bay, but got off uninjured, and will sail in the evening, Sydney, Feb. 21. Mr. Hezlett has been elected member, for Paddington iti the Assembly, in the place of Mr. Sutherland, resigned. Mr. Hezlett favors the Government tiqn. scheme. . ; ... ■. The International Exhibition closes on the 20th April. Brisbane, Feb. 21A man while bathing in the Kemtree River yesterday, 1 was attacked by an alligator. The monster seized him by the thigh, which it crushed, and clawed him severely. The alligator finally slipped his hold, and the man escaped. The steamer Meniiiulr, from Singapore, reports that the comet was seen in Torres Straits. The nucleus was very read and quite yisible..