CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1241, 9 April 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

(reutee : s telegram, pkr press association) London, April 7. Adelaide flour, per 2801bs, ex warehouse, 41s Gd ; market quiet. New Zealand wheat, 47& 3d to 47s 6d. Tallow dull.

Wool market firm. The Board of Trade returns pf imports for the past month amount to L 37,625,000, being an increase of L 9,187,500 as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The exports for March show a total of US,$ J 2,500, being an increase of L 2,687,500 as compared with that of March, 1879.

April 8,

A banquet lias been Held in honor of Mr. M'll wraith, at which Earl Cadogan presided, and proposed Mr. M'llwraith's health.

The Liberals have now gained 83, and contrary to expectations, the county elections are going in favor of the Liberals. An opinion is gaining ground that the Ministry will resign before the meeting of Parliament. A Liberal demonstration took'place tp.-day, at which Lord Hartingdon made a speech.. He denied the statements which had been made tp the effect that the Liberal party was divided, and said it was more united than it ever had been.

j The rumor recently published in the , London newspapers that Thebau, king ! of Burmah, was dead, is entirely unj confirmed. j Yienna, April 8. ! Baron Von Haymel, Minister for Foreign Affairs, made an application to the Austrian Parliament for an extra grant of LIOO for the proper representation of Austro-Hungary at the Melbourne Exhibition. * DIRECT AUSTEALIAN 2s t EWP. (reuter : s telegram per press association, ) Melbourne, April 8. Sugars are firming, and appear to have reached the lowest price. There is a moderate business doing in oats.

It is understood that a large business is expected to be done in Mauritius sugar, •' Arrived—Union Co's. Te A nan., from New Zealand. Sydney, April' 9. The steamer Wakatipu has arrived. .Seven stowaways were found on board after her departure from Wellington. In the Legislative Council last night, a letter was received from the Hon. "VV. B. Dalley, tendering his resignation., ■ : • •

An anti-Chinese meeting was held last night, at which a petition to Parliament was adopted praying for the immediate passage through the Legislature of an Act of one clause requiring the steamer Brisbane, now quarantined with 215 Chinese, and with some pases of smallpox on board, to depart immediately, without discharging, under a penalty of L20,0Q0, ■ ' Brisbane, April 9.

A commission has been appointed to enquire into the cause of the heavy morbaiity which has taken place among the Kanakas on plantations near Maryborough,