LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(From May 28 to June 14.) Mr. Disraeli has withdrawn the fancy franchises, and the compounding clauses are abolished. A county franchise is settled at =£13. '- '■"....'■■ >••"■ Telegraphic news from Mexico states Juarez has captured Queretaro, and taken Maximilian prisoner and ordered him to be shot. A further reduction of Bank of England rates of. discount is expected. . ; .' .
/ The latest advices from New York say that" the Judiciary committee had resolved oily to censure President Johnson. The sentence of death passed on Fenians has been commuted to penal servitude for life, . The latest telegrams announce arrival of ihe King of Prussia at Paris, accompanied by Count Bismark. The Czar of Russia, while riding out with the Emperor Napoleon, in Paris, was fired at by a young Pole, bud fortunately the pistol burst. Great indignation was expressed. / The International Congress proposed to inquire into the affairs of Crete. The Liverpool cotton market is steady. The total stook on 14th June was 86,000 bales. Austrian advices state that the Emperor Francis Joseph has been crowned king, and a general amnesty proclaimed. The cattle plague is extending to London. June 14, Consols, 94£. Bank rate of discount, 2^ per cent. Further reductions are anticipated. The exports to the Australian colonies for the month show an increase of £279,314. The May wool sales, owing to the large quantity, offered, showed a reduction of one penny per lb for the closing' sales of March, The tallow market is quiet and prices ■without alteration, j The Adelaide exportation of wheat to England has been successful.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 861, 27 July 1867, Page 3
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