LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume VI, Issue 311, 12 May 1874, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, Aprill27. rhe Suez Canal difficulty has been settled by the submission of Uaron do Lessepa. It is probable that several Powers will consider the question of toll dues.

The London colonial wool sales opened this evening a'n<£ upwards of 7,500 bales were offered, Pork Philip wools preponderating. The attendance of both home and foroign buyers was large, the foreign buyers being especially numerous. The usual eagerness obser»able on opening day was absent. The prices, compared with the last seriet, show a I decline. The arrivals to date are 290,000 bales. Arrived—Our Hope, Grassmere, Meropo, Zephyr, Columbus, Queea Bee, St Kilda, Woodlark, Dumnore, Atalante, Loolnnvar. ' Sailed—Somersetshi re.

April ib A letter from Count Arnim to Dr Dollinger criticises the ecclesiastical policy of Germany.

Theßon J. Youl, of Tasmania, has been created a CM GThe civic ball given yfesterday by the Corporation of London m honor of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh wu a most brilHant affair. Tender* are invited for a South Australian loan of £180,000, at 4 per cent. The minimum is fixed at 90. Bank rate is 4 per cent. The second day's wool sale showed more animation on the part of bnyert. Wa»hed wools were a penny Jower. and half-breds twopence. Cape wools remain

unchanged. May 1. Ward Hunt'i representations, in moving the Uavy estimates, as to the unsatisfactory condition of the ironclad fleet occasioned much discussion in the House of Commom. The subject was debated yesterday, when Mr Childers defended the late administration. Mr ITunt maintained the views he previously expressed, and said that the Supplementary Estimates were a n/jceisary but large expenditure not Contemplated. t The elections for Wakefield and Stroud hare been annulled on petition. Mr E. Green, a Conservative, had been elected to the former, and Mr W. Stretfcon and Mr S S. Diekenson, Liberal, to the latter. New elections will be held for both places. There is a serious famine in Asia Minor, and hundreds of persons are djing dailj.

May 2. The wool sales nre marked by considerable languor, and 2 000 bales have been withdrawn. The merchants have decided to hare only four tales thia series instead of five, and tho next sales commence on August 18. Messrs Balme and Co., report decline on fleeces aft a half-penny to twopence j scoured and lambs, one penny half-penny j balf-breds ' one penny to three pence. ' Wheat, unaltered. Arrived: Penlhesilea, from Melbourne.

„,! New York, May 1. Iho overflow of tkc Mississippi inundated 14,000 square miles of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, including a portion of the best cotton plantations.

_, „ Teheran, May 1. Ibe overflow of the Tigris caused a flood at

Bagdnd: tr ny l i_ -. • Spain > MavlJiostiliUos have boon resumed in the province of Biscay and the Republicans arc grudunlly advancing. '

Some curious fuel* will be noted in connection with the general election of 1874. .Beyond the losses sustained elsewhere, the Liberal pnrty find two of their drßiufied officials suddenly unsettled in Iceland. Lord O. Fitzgerald, personally unobjectionable, but representnthe of n. groat hnid-owmn<r fnmiJy, hat not been accepted by the tenant fanners o? Rildarc. Moro remnrknblo still is the rejection by the county of Loutb of Mr Chiohcatet Fortchcue-, wlio of ail men n npi>cmlly responsible for having advised nnd nided Mr ain^ton^ in tins importfoifc. hjonsuTM nfiecting the Church and the land in 18H9 and 1870. The O'Doncphuc (Tralee) is one of the very few who, manfully irfut-ing to actoyL the shibboleth uf Iloine Rule, has j«t rctumod hid scut.