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INTENDED PROCEEDINGS BT MR. BRADLAUGH. SPECIAL MEETING OP THE CABINET. THE NEW UNDERSECRETARY FOR THE COLONIKS. THE TRANSVAAL* CONVENTION. DISSATISFACTION OF THE NATIVE CHIEB'S. THREATENED RESISTANCE TO THE BOERS. London, 3rd Augnst. Mr. Bradlaugh, it has transpired, will, on Friday, apply to tho Police Court for a sammoiiß against a police inspector for illegally removing 1 him from tho House of Commons. It is announced that a Cabinet Council has been summoned for the special purpose of reconsidering tho Parliamentary oaths question. Mr. L. H. Courtnoy, M.P. for Liskeard, will succeed Mr. M. E. Grant-Duff as Undersecretary for the Colonies. Consols remain afc 10 If. New Zealand securities have advanced £ per ct nfc. all round, and are to-day quoted as follows : —5 p<3r cent. 10-40 loan, 105 ; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 101-Jr ; 4^ per oent. 1870-1904 loan, 103£. Adelaide and Now Zealand broadstuffs are unchanged at last quotations — viz., Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 48s ; Now Zealand wheat, ex Fhip, 4Ss Cd ; Adelaide flour, er warehouse, 31s (sd. Australian tallow— best beef remainß at 34s 6d ; best mutton at 303. Best Sydntycopra has declined to 10s por ton j galvanized iron, 26-guage, £IQ 10s. CArKTOWN, 3rd August. News is to haud from Pretoria that after the conclusion of the labors of tho Royal Commission, Sir Hercules Robinson oonvened a meeting of native chiefs of the Transvaal. His Excellency explained to them at length tho deoi-ions arrivod at by the Royal Commissioners and the Boer leaders for the future government of the Transvaal. The chiefs express themselves dissatisfied with the dejisions, and threaten to resist the exorcise of Boer authority in the country.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1881, Page 2
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