LATEST ENGLISH NEWS London, June 20.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 333, 2 July 1874, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWSLondon, June 20.

uwing to tbo elections in North Durham being dechiml void on petition, a fresh election was held, resulting in the election of Mr C. M. Palmer, a Liberal, and Mr Elliott, a Conservative, in the room of Mr Lothian 801 l and C. M. Palmer, Liberals.

The death*, are announced of Mr J. 0. M. Bel- 1 lew ajid M. Jules Gabriel Janin, French critic and author. The last New Zealand debentures are officially quoted. The Canadian 4 per cent, loan of £4,000,000 at 90 has been subscribed. The Sublime Porte refused to ratify the contract for the Turkish loan of £19,000,000 on the terms announced. The failures are announced of Mr Snelgrove,merchant, of Mark Land, for £300,000, and the Belfast Linen Manufacturing Company for nearly a million sterling. Wool continues firm. Arrivals for next sales are 150,000 bales. The wheat market is drooping. New Zealand Hemp : Common to medium has been sold at £17 to £20 per ton. A Turkish ship, the Karo, was sunk in the Sea of Marmora, when 320 passengers were drowned. June 22. The Agricultural Union resolved on a vigorous course of action to defeat the leck-out, and invited Mr Arch to take the laborers so Canada. In the House of Lords the judgment in the Mordaunt case authorises the continuance of the divorce proceedings. A submarine cable has been successiully laid from Lisbon to Pernambuco. It is now open for business. Paris June 20. The Assembly have rejected the further important clauses in the Munitipal Bill, but Government proceed with the measure, and claimed the right to nominate mayors. The Assembly eventually adopted the amendment by 358 to 329. prolonging for two years the Government prerogative of nominating mayors. Rome, June 20. The Pope, in receiving the congratulations of the Sacred College on the anniversary of his accession, said he had refused the proposal from high personages for a reconciliation with the King of Italy, because any concession he believed would be equally injurious to the Church and to society. Madrid, June 20. The Carlists have concentrated their forces within the entrenchment at Monte Juro, near Estella, in Navarre, but the weather has hindered operations. General Conoha is now the Republican commander.