LATEST NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 1, 9 July 1874, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

Losdov, June 13. Lord Carnwvon has received the Fiji Cotni misbioners report. Rochefort has arrived in Ireland. He was rec&ived with hostility both in Cork and Dublin. The Paris « Moniteur J says that, although England is indisposed to grant his extradition, Eagl nd cannot refuse an inquiry as to whether B-itish subjects were not concerned in accordance with the principles laid down at the Oongresa on International Law. Royal Hunt Cup : Captain Stirling's Lowlander first, Mr. Long's Maid of Perth seconf, and Sir P. Johnstone's Flower of the Forest third. Gold Cup : M. Belamarre's b c Boiird, by Vermont, first : Mr Merry's Doncaster and M. Lefevre's Flagelet dead heat for second placeTbe Bank rate is reduced to two-and-a-half per cent. June 22. Owing to the election at North Durham being declared void on petition, a freeh election has been held, resulting in the return of Mr C- M. Palmer, a Liberal, and Mr Elliot, a Conservative, in the room of Messrs Lothian Bell and 0. M. Palmer, Liberals. The' deaths are announced of the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew, and Jules Gabriel Jania, a French crit c and author. ■ The last New Zealand loan is officially quoted. A Canadian 4 per cent. 1 an of L 4,000,000 at 90 has been subscrib d. . Tbe Sublime Porte refused* to ratify the contract for the Turkish loan ot L 19,000 on the terms announced. . The failures are reported of Snelirrive and Ca, merchants, Mark Lane, for L30?>,000, and a Belfast linen manufacturing firm for nearly Ll. 0)0,000. ' Wool co tinnes firm The arrivals for next sales are over 180,000 bales. Wheat is drooping. Kemp, common to medium, has been soM at Ll7 to L 24. Tee Turkish ship Kars has sunk in the Sea of Marmora, and 320 persons w re drowned. The A gricultural Union has resolved on a vigo-oos course of action to def -at the lockout, and has invited Arch to take laborers to Canada. The House of Lords' judgment in the Mordaunt cisc aarh -rises the continuence of the Divorce proceedings. A submarine cable ha 3 been 'successfully laid from Lisbon to Pernambu^o. .. . Romr, June 20. v: The Pope, in receiving the congratulations ' of .-'the Sacred College on the anniversary of his accession, said he refused a proposal from high personages for reconcilia-iou with the King of Italy, because any concession he believed equally injurious to tbe Church and to Bociety. General Garibaloi is seriously ill at Caprera. Madrid, June 20. The Car'ist concentrated forces are within' entrenchments at Monte Jurro, near Eitello, in Nav»rre; but the weather hindered the operations of General Cencha, the Republic Commander. N