LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1208, 1 March 1880, Page 2

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(rkotkr's telegram, per press association) London, February 28. At the ■wool sale to-day, 10,400 bales were offered, making a total of 107,900 bales catalogued since the opening of the sale. Prices are firm. Combing wools show an advance of 2M as compared with the last series. The House of Commons to-day voted on the motion of Sir Stafford Northcote for the punishment of members who may obstruct the business of the House, by temporaily suspending them from the privilege of sitting in Parliament. The Liberals supported the Government on this question, and the debate lasted three days. Party feeling occasionally ran very high. Berlin, February 28. The appointment of Prince Hohenlohe as Foreign Secretary has been made in consequence of Prince Bismarck's state of health, which is reported to be bad. (special to press association.) London, February 28. Delegates from the African Colonies will discuss at Capetown the federation scheme. Sir James Ferguson has been appointed Governor of Bombay. The Indian Government's programme is that Persia shall rule Herat and Sistan, Merv to be created into a State under Persia, under British protection; East and South Afghanistan dependencies to be under British protection; Khelat and Cashmere to receive territory, England retaining Khoorum, Khost, Khyber, and Jellalabad. New Zealand wheat is quoted at from 57s to 583, and is drooping. One hundred and three bales have been catalogued to-day. Prices are firmer. (SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE AGE.) London, February 28. | The South African Colonies' delegates assembled at Capetown to discuss Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's confederation proIposals, the carrying out of which they I have decided is absolutely necessary, the

British garrisoning Capetown only. The Boers desire the establishment in their district of a constitution similar to that of the Transvaal. ,