LATER TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1155, 24 May 1870, Page 3

LATER TELEGRAMS.

'. '■ _ Galle, April 20. " The telegraph cable via the Red Sea, and the new line recently opened with Europe, are working well. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived in the Galatea at Colombo on the 3lst March,' '■. Commodore Heath, with the flagship, meeting him. : The Duke had a warm reception. He was treated to a- sight of the Elephant drovea now being hunted in the hill coun» : -try* ■'•■ ' ..'.'■ t ■ i ■ ■ ! On arriving, the Duke received a tele•gram from the Admiralty altering the destination of the Galatea, which will now proceed to Mauritius, thence to Cape, and thence to Australia. The reason for the changes are not known. - BoMBAr, April 14. . Harvest prospects -are gloomy throughout the Punjuub. . , ■ The Duke of Edinburgh left Bombay Maach 19ih, for Madras, where he rejoined his ship. ; -;.'.. . : ■ His reception at Mndras was most enthusiastic. . . ; | The Indian budget of last year shows a v sum of £52,900,000, leaving a deficiency of £625,596. > . . . ■ ; Great reduction is to be made ih the Civil Service. :• ' - f I The .income, tax ,-has beem considerably • increased. v, nv ,n:- ;; ,i.; ,■':_•• ■. -••- •- \ . Maharajah Buppoor Wilhab, while on

liis way to England, was taken ill, and died while returning to Bombay. ■ London, April 13. j A paper on South Sea slavery- has been ; laid before Parliiment, which states that the " expenses of tht! Daphne 'will be refunded, j The Commander; of H. M.S. : Rosa'rio has been promoted to the rank'of Captain. The Prussian' Government are supposed toi ; be favourable- to aosuming the sovereignty of the Fiji Islands. The cor 7 vette Bertha has been ordered there. Sir J. Denison advocates national emigration, with Government loans to families, to be guaranteed by Colonial Governments. Wools have realised prices eqi*»l to last average, with fair competition. , gtocks amount to 1 62,000 bales. j Tallerman's meat auction went off badly. Another sale will be held this month, at Liverpool. ' ! South American cattle have aold at, a heavy loss. ' " , • ; , . ' ;. April 14. ; Mr. Lowe delivered his financial statement on the 11th inst., and stated the re-> venue for 1869 to be £75,430,006; expenditure £67,654,020, leaving a surplus of £4,300,000, to be applied in defraying the; expenses of the Abyssinian expedition ; the! remainder to be devoted to paying off exchequer*'bonds, and buying up exchequer bills. • „; ' ' It is proposed to abolish hawker's licensea,' and other small taxing licenses, the tax on playing cards, and 5 per cent.; railway duty, also the reduction of land postage on newspapers to a halfpenny ; the remainirigj £4,000,000 it was proposed to reduce by lessening the. incme tax fourpence, and the duty on sugar by 1^ per cent., retaining a surplus of £331,000. . . ! The 'Irish" Peace Preservation Bill has become law. . . ; Th 6 House of Commons adjourned on the 14th April. „- . < .:. The Due de Montpensier, in consequence of his fatal duel with< Prince Bourbon, has been coudemned to one month's imprisonment and to pay 30,000 francs aa fiiiei Hia' candidature for the throne has been abandoned. The revenue' of Great Britain for the first quarter of the year exceeds the estimated BUnt by £47,288. The Irish Land Bill, is slowly proceeding through committee. The chief clauses have been passed. Mr. Bright's health is improving. He is determined not to be idle this session, and has resumed his parliamentary duties. La Crauzett strike, which broke out a second time, has now ended. Great excitement is caused in Canada by the execution, at Red, River, , of . . Sehultze, , by O'Neill an insurgent leader.; .. The Government announce an energetic policy, and a strong force has been sent. Agrarian outrages continue in Ireland. A catholic clergyman hus pronounced an anuthema against fenianism. Prince Pierre Bonaparte has been acquitted on all' points of the indictment. Serious fighting, of a seditious character, has taken place at Cuba. Cambridge, after nine successive defeats, has won the University boat race by a length and a half. , Revolt has arisen in several provinces of Spain, occasioned by conscription. Strong measures have been adopted to repress the insurrection. The Austrian ministry haa been dissolved, M: Polocke has been commissioned to form a new one. Sir W. F., Williams (Kars), and General Charles Grey, are dead. The disturbances, at Paraguay are finally ended, by the defeat and death of Lopez. >■ Colonel O'Neill, and Greville Nugent, M.P. for Loughborough, have been nnseated. Consols, 92f . April 16. Government has introduced a bill disfranchising Beverly and Bridgewater. Apprehension of a Fenian raid has induced the Canadian Government to send a militia regimant and the 16th regiment of foot to the, eastern frontier. The Habeas ; Corpus Act has been suspended in Canada. M. Olliver has submitted to the French senate a scheme of iliberal reform! transferring the power of the senate, relative to taxation, to the Corps Legislatif. M. Oilivier has announced his intention of submitting the question Senatus Consulturn to a Plebicitum ; this caused dissension, and, ultimately , : a crisis. . ,i In the Cabinet some resignations took place, amongst them that of Count DaruJ -' M. Oilivier remains premier. : Seven resignations took place between the Ist and 18th Maa. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Duke of Manchester at Pemberton Cnstle on the 14th March. , Uernurd Osborne has been returned for Waterford by a majority of six. He had a narrow escape, as the house in wlu'ch he. was stopping was attacked by the Irish National party. , . ■ .- > The President of the United States has sent a special message to Congress about the decline of American commerce. The House of Representatives passed a Bill enforcing the laws against; the Mormons. ' ' V