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LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

From Exchanges. The s.s. Ararata arrived at the Bluff on the 20th instant, with the English mails, via Suez. The following are the latest telegrams. LONDON. November 30. The English Government have bought from the Khedive of Egypt’all his Suez Canal shares for £4,000,000 cash down. The Khedive held 177,000 out of the total number of 400,000 shares in the Canal Company. The journals unanimously approve of the purchase, which has caused much agitation in pofitical and financial circles. Thirty thousand Dundee mill workers struck against a notice of a reduction in the rates of wages. Insurgents of Herzegoviuahave defeated the Turkish troops at Gotschkoege. Eight hundred were killed, and six hundred wounded. 'J’he Times recommends, and the Austrian Pressopposes an Austrian occupation of Bosina and Herzegovina. The Austrian forces on the Turkish frontier have been reinforced. Montenegro despatches an envoy to the Northern powers, to explain to them the difficulty of preserving neutrality. The Spanish reply to the American nrfte of the 2nd November, concedes the legal privileges to American citizens in Cuba, and this amicably settles the HispanoAmerican difficulty. It is proposed to prosecute Count Von Arnim for treason.

The Government- intend sending a Special Commissioner tdCairo to examine into Egyptian finance, aud to the Khedive.. The Flfncli*Prcss, though regretting the check given to French influence in Egypt, admires the decisive action of and considers it unlikely to lead to political complications. The German and Austrian Press approve of England’s action iu the matter. The opening rates of the wool sales were well maintained. Australian maintain the closing rates of last series. Capes, Id to 1) lower. Wheat, 51s to 535. 8000 bales’New Zealand hemp sold at £l9 per ton. December 3. Sir Julius»Vogel sailed iu the Somersetshire. Sir Alfred Stephen has been gazetted Governor of New South Wales. . Mrs. Childers has been killed by the inadvertent inhalation of chloroform. - The Uity Inundation Fund amounts to £14,000. In wool, competition continues extreinelly vigorous ; Australian rates are lirmer.. , Wheat is quiet. Adelaide, 54s to 55s ; New Zealand, 51s to 535.

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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 336, 25 December 1875, Page 2

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LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 336, 25 December 1875, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 336, 25 December 1875, Page 2

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