CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1306, 14 June 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HO. ME Ai " ) FOREIGN NEWS.

, - PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION) (EETJTEP.S TELEGRAi. ' _ London, June 11. . + he Chancellor of The increase which . in the the Exchequer proposes t. income tax will be id, not >

understood. . < . tnr . The total quantity of wheat afl^a c lor Great Britain is 1,550,000 quarters. Australian tallow : Beef is quoted 32s 6d and best mntton at 34s 6d. New Zealand securities : Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 104 ; five per cent. 1880 loan, 102 J. The homeward Australian mails, via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on April 28, were delivered to-day. The homeward mails per the Orient steamship Sorato, via Brindisi, were delivered today.

Gordon Pasha has gone to China. June 12. Consols are quoted at 98J, ex dividend. Sydney copra is at 1/19 per ton. The match between the Australians and an eleven of Yorkshire concluded to-day. The Home team concluded its second innings, and scored 100. Spofforth took six wickets. Boyle's fielding in this innings was excellent. The Australians then requiring 91 runs to win, went in and made the necessary score, with the loss of only five wickets, and won by the same number of wickets. M'Donnell, in j the second innings of the Australians, j made the highest score (47), and was caught out. In the House of Commons to-day the Marquis of Hartington, of State for India, in reply to a question, Baid that the exact date for the evacuation of Cabul by the British troops was not yet fixed. It has been announced that a European Conference will despatch a special Commission to Greece to settle the frontier question on the spot. The Orient Company's steamship Potasi sailed from Plymouth to-day for Australia. t As the result of a circular note which was sent by the British Government last month to the European Powers, specifying a means for the solution of the Montenegrin and Armenian questions, the Great Powers have now presented a collective note to the Sultan informing him that he will be held responsible for Peria's delay that has taken place with the cession of territory to Montenegro, and for his failure to execute necessary reforms in Armenia. The note further Btates that the Great Powers will insist op the strict execution of the Treaty cf Berlin by Turkey. The Sultan has not yet replied to the note. Calcutta, June 12.

The report which was recently circulated to the effect that Ayoub Khan was making warlike preparations to wrest Candahar from the descendants Shere Ali is now confirmed. The latest intelligence from Afghanistan, however, states that owing to defections from his supporters, Ayoub Khan's movements fraye now totally collapsed.

DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(REUTEP.'s TELEGRAM PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, June 14.

Peter Lalor, a member of the Assembly, and formerly Minister of Trade and Customs in the Berry Government, has a meeting of hip creditors.