CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 484, 29 April 1873, Page 5

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

*■; ■::■;: ?': x ;L^pc« v 4^d 16th. - The * Times,' in an article on the Postal Conference, regrets' that the importance of the scheme; shouldbe marred* by 7 conflicting claims as to tho terminus. The 1 * Standard ' ; holds tlxe ! sariae tow. -. The Pope is alarmingly ill. . The city of San Salvador, Guatemala, has been destroyed • hy. ah 'earthquake. Eight hundred persons were killed, and twelve million -dollars.' worth of property was destroyed. ~. Brigham Young has abdicated and fled to Arizona. ' The French elections are likely to result in favor of the Kepublicans. The Carlists have been further defeated. Mr Lowe in his Budget speech, estimated the surplus at five millions, the revenue being seventy- six millions, and the expenditure seventy-one millions. One penny is to come off the income tax, and half the duty off sugar, in May next. The Alabama claims are to be paid, part out of the surplus, and part by Exchequer Bills. The Khan of Khiva has beheaded his Prime Minister, and imprisoned his relations. The Russian prisoners are to be forwarded to Orenburg. The Baroda left Galle for Australia on the 14th.' ■ The Australian February mail, via Brindisi, has been delivered in London. France has paid Germany another ten millions. The Bank rate of discount is four per cent. Tallow is improving. Hides and leather are dull. Wheat is falling. Tbe Prince of Wales has been installed as Grand Master of the United Masonic; Knight Templars of England and Ireland. The Hawaiians oppose the American project for the establishment of a harbor in their islands. The Emperor of Germany, Prince Bismarck, and Count Moltke visit the Czar at the end of April. The exports of coal for the quarter ending Maroh are twenty-one and a half millions, y The Russian press demand the acquisition of Khiva. . . The New Zealand Roads Loan Act Amehd.ment Bill ha-* passed its second reading. New Zealand Consolidated Fives are at 102-2. * Tallow is improving.