LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1314, 23 June 1880, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(PER STEAMER AT RUSSELL.) (SPECIAL TO SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.) London, June 17. There is a growing discontent at the proposed wine tariff. It is considered highly advantageous to France, and Mr. Gladstone is credited with having the prospepts in view of being dependent on Spain and Portugal offering to reduce the general tariff. Sir Francis Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, and Mr. Thompson and others are actively engaged procuring works of art for the Melbourne Exhibition. The Duke of Manchester will proceed to the Melbourne Exhibition as Honorary Commissioner, accompanied by his daughter, and Mr. Herbert Stafford will proceed to Melbourne as Executive Commissioner, instead of Sir Cunliffe Owen.

(pee rotorua, at the bluff.)

The marriage of the Princess Frederica, of Hanover, to Baron Von Parnell Raminge, was solemnised at' Windsor on the 24th inst. The Queen was present at the ceremony. The report as to the intended marriage of Prince Leopold with a lady of high distinction in. private life is considered very probable. The London correspondent of .the Paris Temps reports the substange of the declaration by Barl Granville, at the;first offioial reception relative to the foreign policy of the Government. The Treaty of Berlin would be maintained. The Cabinet will enter into no continental alliance/ and the relations with France will be cordially continued. He regards the demands of the Greek Cabinet to give them support exceeding even the demands put forward by the French deplomatists. Natal, May 17.

The privacy so urgently invoked for the Empress Ejugpnie has ten gtriotly maintained during her progress through Ifatal." The local press is respectfully silent as to the movements of the party. The route followed will be chosen as regards the avoidance of obtrusion and observation.