CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 73, 9 May 1879, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

(retjter's telegrams.)

London. May 5.

The Daily News publishes a paragraph seating that the Prince of Wales will visit the Melbourne Exhibition.

The Board of Trade returns of the exports for tho last month continue very unfavorable.

May 6

The Chancellor or the Exchequer, in reply to a question, said that with a view to an early settlement of the difficulties in Zululand, instructions had been sent to the Governor and ■High Commissioner to abstain from n policy oi'.Miuiuxatioij, and coiline liis efforts to xttotetUug the Colonies from danger. Isaac Butt, M.P. for Limerick, is dead.

The Brindisi mails were delivered in London on the sth.

Wheat, 6d per quarter higher ; mutton tallow, 6d per cwt. lower.

Beisbane, May 7. The Government have telegraphed to Londonjo ask for tenders for a fortnightly mail, via Torres Straits.

Melbourne, Tuesday,

The National Bank has declared a dividend of 12£ per cent, per annum. The profits are £56,724 for the halfyear.

>ydkj!y, Tuesday

The sentence of deatli on the Hatfield bushrangers lias boon commuted. They have received a lengthy term of imprisonment, three of them in iiOEg.

May 7. Capetown news to April 23 says : Movements preparatory to the British advance into Zululand have com« menced. The Actual British advance takes place in a fortn.ght. Constantinople, May 7. Russians have evacuated Rouxnelia. \. .