HOME NEWS TO 27th MARCH.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 44, 16 April 1873, Page 2

HOME NEWS TO 27th MARCH.

! PER ALHAMBRA, AT THE BLUFF. (FROM THE NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.) > a -n . . London. Sir Daniel Cooper has addressed a letter to Lord Kimberley, advocating retention of Sydney as a postal terminus. Thirty tons of preserved meats have arrived from South America. The University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the 29th March. Betting at present six to four in favor of bridge. Obituary.—Count Bernstoff, German ambassador to England. Ats banquet given at the Mansion House, two hundred Mayors were present, including McPherson, Ex-MAyor of Melbourne. Ministers of the Crown and foreign ambassadors were among the invited guests. Gladstone, in responding to the health of the Ministry, said, in his speech, he was not ashamed either of his recent fall or recovery of office, and that the principle of a national Irish University was indestructible. Spain. 7 A levy en masse in Northern Spain has been decided on to proceed againtst the Carlists. Turkby Turkey has contracted a loan of twenty millions.

FROM THE STAB. London. —Lord Romlcy has retired from the Mastership of the Rolls.—The Dakota’s New Zealand mails have been delivered.—The Imperial authorities have decided not to deal with the Suez mail proposals until the arrival of the February mail.—There have been large arrivals of Californian wheat. The quotation at LiverEool is Ils 6d per cental.—The Roman Catholics ave appointed a thanksgiving for the overthrow .of the Irish University Bill.—The Atlantic Telegraph Company is announced, with a capital of eight millions sterling, which is to absorb existing companies. — The National Agricultural Union has resolved to petition the Colonial Governments to grant free passages to agricultural laborers.—Mr. Lowe promises to consider the expediency of inquiring into the Bank Act, authorising the Government to suspend the Bank Charter on emergencies.

COLONIAL. Wellington. Nothing settled yet regarding reconstruction of the Cabinet. i The Government not favorable to Gibbs, Bright and Co.’s offer for conveyance of immigrants. Webb has telegraped, asking to be released from penalties for breaking his contract. Government not likely to comply. Last month’s subsidy was stopped. Shephard, of Nelson, will not get a seat in the Ministry.