LATE CABLE NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 843, 9 June 1885, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

London, June 2. Lady Hughes, wife of Sir Walter Watson Hughes, discoverer of the Wallaroo and other copper mines in South Australia, is dead. Bombay, June 2. Telegrams announce that a severe earthquake visited the district of Cashmere, and caused heavy loss of life. London, June 3. The various despatches which have passed between the New Zealand and the Home Governments on the subject of the recent Maori embassy have been published. Among them is a memorandum from the new Ministry, dated March 2Sth, which declares that there is nothing in the memorial presented by the embassy which had not been previously satisfactorily answered by the Colonial Government. It is now authoritatively notified that the town of Penj-deh has been ceded to Russia. The military authorities at Herat are irritated at the cession of the town. The race for the Derby took place at Epsom to-day, and resulted as follows : Loi'd Hastings' b c Melton 1 Captain C. Bowling's b c Paradox ... ... 2 Mr Childwick's b c Royal Hampton ... 3 June 4. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P., president of the Board of Trade, addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents at Birmingham this evening. Regarding Egyptian affairs, Mr Chamberlain stated that obstruction on the part of the French Government to the policy of Great Britain in Egypt had delayed the evacuation of that country by the British forces, and would perhaps finally render it a matter of impossibility. A Cabinet Council has been summoned for to-day, when the Ministry will come to a decision as to the renewal of the Prevention of Crimes Act in Ireland. The directors of the New Zealand Grain Agency recommend that the Company go into liquidation. The third series of Colonial wool sales opened to-day. Messrs Balme and Son's and Jacombe and Co.'s joint catalogue comprised nearly 10,000 bales, two-fifths cf which were from New Zealand. There was a large attendance of buyers, and the bidding was spirited. Crossbreds are firm at last rates to a half-penny advance, and merinoes were in buyers' favor. Cairo, June 4. News is to hand that a party of rebels have occupied Korti, which place was formerly Lord Wolseley's headquarters on the Nile. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN. London, June 4. Tenders for the New Zealand loan of one and a-half million were opened to-day. The total amount offered by the applicants amounts to nearly seven millions. Tenderers at £IOO 3s 6d will receive 32 per cent, of their application, above that amount in full. Eight hundred tenders were received for, th&> New Zealand loan, covering £G,BoQj6B9&V*®irENGLAND AND RUSSIA. London, June 4. Sir Peter Lumsden expresses a doubt whether peace will be preserved between England and Russia. There are now 15,000 Afghan soldiers in Herat.