LATEST.
Presentation of the Embassy to
tfie Queen,
London, March 17.
The Seoretary of State for the Colonies presented Messrs Berry and Pearson today at the levee. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has accepted the Presidency of the London Commission of the Melbourne International Exhibition. A commissioner has been appointed by the Swiss Federal Government to represent Switzerland at the Melbourne Exhibition. Two thousand lhes have been lost by the floods at Szegedin in Hungary. The January mails via San Francisco were delivered here to-day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has fixod the debate m the House of Com* tnons on the Zulu war to take place on March the twenty-seventh. Lord Bland ford has given notice in the House of Lords of a resolution condemn* ing the Zulu war. London, March 15. General Kauffmann has resigned the Governorship of Turkestan for being Held responsible for the manifestations of Russian sympathy with Afghanistan prior to the war. : Uneasiness is caused by the belief that the Russians are advancing on Merv. The money market is easy. Money is in large supply; commercial requirements small. Consoli,96|. Australian securities are remarkably firm. New Zealand four and a-half per cent, quoted at 97. The wool sales as they progress develop a weakness. The series close on the 27th. Wheat is steady. A recent shipment of New Zealand wheat of good quality realised 48s. ' .
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3146, 19 March 1879, Page 2
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