TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 130, 19 March 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March 13. The Victorian loan has proved a great success. There were subscribed for about double the two and three-quarter million at 99 and upwards. There were tlxixieen hxxndred tenders. March 14. The minimum rate of discount of the Bank of England is two and a-half. An important discovery has been made at Middlesborn, which promises to xxxake steel very cheap. Tenders are invited for a cable to the Cape. A committee has been appointed by the Minister for Agriculture and Commerce, at Paris, for the Sydney International Exhibition. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to questions, said it was not intended to supersede Lord Chelmsford. Mr Berry will be presented at the Px-ince of Wales’s levee. Wheat —Adelaide, firm. The extreme prices check business. Prices, 4s lid ; flour, LlO 12s 6cl to Lll 10s. The marriage of the Duke of Connaught was celebrated yesterday. The Queen was present. In the Hoxxse of Commons the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in replying to a question, said that a Manchester firm had despatched ammunition to Mozambique, but that the British Government had taken to steps to prevent the same from reaching the Zulus. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in replying to another question, said that the British Government was disposed to recommend to the Sultan an Englishman to administer the finances of Turkey if one was applied for. A despatch by tl e Marquis of Salisbury, dated January 26th, ixas beexx published. It states that the action of Russian officials in Bulgaria and Roumelia has been contrary to the treaty of Berlin, and has aggravated the difficulties of the present situation. The despatch xxrges the immediate separatioxx of Bulgaria and Roumelia. The Oommancler-in-Chief at the Cape decided to send a relieving force to Colonel Pearson .at Eckowe. The latest Cape news is that the Zulus are inactive ixx consequence of the arrival of the frigate Shah, with reinforcexnents from St Helena. March 17. The ‘ Saturday Review,’ in referring to the Victorian embassy, says that fearing the system of tacking Bills on to the Appropriation Act may be renewed unless the Constitution be altered, it approves of a nominee Council, and that the Secretary for the Colonies might usefully meditate in the present crisis. Mr Berry met Earl Granville, Lord Derby, Mr Gladstone, and Mr Lowe at a dinner give a by the chairman of the Eastern Extension Camp any. Mr Berry is anxious to be credited with moderation. He had a warm argument with Earl Granville on the protection tariff. Australian securities are remarkably firm. New Zealand per cents., February and August, are now quoted at 97. The corn market is easier. Recent shipments of New Zealand wheat have been of good quality, and realised 48s. The result of the embassy is a satxsfactory settlement of the constitutional question. At a dinner given by Sir M. Hicks Beach to the embassy, Messrs Gladstone, Low, Bright, and Earls Shaftesbury and Derby, were present. The exnbassy were presented to the Queen. The Prince of Wales accepts _ the Presidency of the Melbourne International Exhibition. Mr Berry was presented to the Queen to-day by the Hon. Mr Childers, Agent-General. _ St. Petersburg, March 19. _ Two secret printing presses were discovered here, and several arrests were made. Paris, March 13. The Chamber of Deputies rejected a resolution for the impeachment of the De Broglie Cabinet by a large majority. The Government intimated that they would resign if the motion was adopted.