ENGLISH CABLEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1051, 20 March 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH CABLEGRAMS.

LONDON, March 18. The ' Star's' London Correspondent telegraphs: There was a serious row m Belfast on St. Patrick's Day. Tho police and military wero called out to» quell the disturbances. In the House of Commons Home Rulers are obstructing the passage of the Army Estimates. [REUTER'S SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS. | HB CONSTITUTIONAL QUBSIIONT SEITLED. LONDON, March 15. The Victoriau Embassy has been successful. The Constitutional question has been settled. The Ambassadors officially dined with Sir M. Hicks-Beach. Mr Gladstone, Mr Bright, Mr Lowe, Mr | Villiers, Lord Derby, Lord Shaftes bury, aud Mr Clifford were present.! Mr Childers has accepted the j Agent-Generalship of Victoria. General Kauffman has resigned the Governorship of Turkestan for being held responsible for the mani. festations of Russian sympathy with j Affghanistan prior to the war. ' Uneasiness is caused by the belief j that the Russians are advancing on Merv. The latest Cape news is to the effect that the Zulus were inactive. The money market is easy. Money is m large supply; commercial j requirements small. 1 Consols, 96£. I Australian securities are remark, ably firm. New Zealand Four and a-Half Per Cent, quoted at 97. The wool sales as they progress I develop a weakness. The series close on the 27th. j Wheat is steady. A recent shipment of New Zaaland wheat of good quality realised 48s. | LONDON, March 16. ' Quarantine is over m Astrakhan,] except m one village. j The reinforcements which have arrived at Natal have bet n ordered to the front, as General Lord Chelmsford proposes to advance and punish tbe Zulus* Mr Yardley has been appointed Assistant-Agent-General for New South Wales. LONDON, March 17. The Prince of Wales has acoepted the Presidancy of the London Commission of the Melbourne International Exhibition. OTTAWA, Canada, March 16. The Dominion Finance Minister has submitted to Parliament a New Protectorate Tariff, with the object of producing a yearly increase of revenue of two millions. MADRID, March 15. Tho Spanish Cortes has been dissolved.