TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 8 June 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, June 3. Consols, 98| (ex div.) June'4. In the House of Lords last night, the New Burials Bill was road a second time. The measure provides that the burial of Dissenters should be permitted to take place in churchvards an 3 cemetries without the recital of the Church of England service. New Zealand wheaV ex ship, is at 48s. At the wool auctions to-day 10,000 bales were offered, making a total of 364,300 catalogued since the opening. The tone of the sale was firm, and there was a better demand for cross-fired. The cricket match between the Australians and eighteen of Burnley, in Lancashire, was concluded to-day, >ud resulted in a victory for the Australians in one innings and 27 runs to spare. In the second innings of the Brrnlcy men Spofforth took 12 wickets in 15 overs. The Australian team has bow scored its fifth win, with one draw in its favor, and has not yet lost a match.

Uang.iOn, Juno 4. Infonnation has been received that party ol Burmese rebels who were on a foraging expedition, but wer- defeated in an encounter with the Burmese troops, territory. Latkk. The insurrection in Independent Burmah is r.'pidly extending. A severe encounter has taken place betwten a force of Burmese Government troops and a body of rebels. The former were defeated, and their commander captu red by the rebels and beheaded. Constantinople, June 4. The question as to whether the sentence of death passed on Mahomed Veli, the a-sassan of the Russian attache, Colonel Comeroff, should be carried out, is still unsettled. Th« Snlian desires that the sentence should be commuted, and has referred the matter to Ulemmas who will decide upon the Course to be pursued. Four companies of British reyim nts which were tfdvred to the frontier of British Burmah have already started. . Best Australian mutt m tallow is to~ day quoted at 35s per cwt. The total, stocks of tiillnw in London on the Ist inst. «a« 17 '. > 111 e-isks.