NEWS BY CABLE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5439, 21 July 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

[special to the " evenixo TOST."} It is estimated that France will purchase 500,000,000 bushels of foreign wheat this year. There has been an extraordinary prevalence of wet weather in England this summer. Floods have occurred in various parts of the country, and ccroal crops havo suffered severely. By direction of the Archbishop of Canterbury .prayers for fine weather are being offered in all the churches. Cape Town news received via telegraph from Madeira to the 24th instant states that the Court of Enquiry • summoned to investigate the circumstances connected with the death of the Prince Imperial, and his alleged desertion b 3* Captain Carey when he was surrounded by the Zulus, has terminated its sittings. Tho Court censured Captain Carey for his conduct. Angry scenes have taken place in tho House of Commons during the debate on the Government " Discipline Bill." Yielding to the determined stand taken up by the Irish members, supported by some of the Extreme Radicals among the English members, the Government ultimately consented to the insertion of a clause by which flogging in the army is virtually abolished. During the excited discussions that took place on the subject, several of the Radicals repudiated Lord Harrington as being the leader of their party. The effect lias boen to create a deal of division and disorganisation among the Liberal forces, which lately had been growing in strength and compactness.