NEWS BY CABLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 71, 6 May 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

(Reuters' telegrams). London, May 2. TPhto Stock Exchange is closed, owing to its being a bank holiday, and there are no changed to report in the money market. Adelaide wheat has- declined Is, and is now quoted at 48s ex^ware- - house Adelaide flour has also declined Is, and is now quoted at 83s ex warehouse. New Zealand -wheat, ex ship, remains at 458. Australian tallow is without quotable change. In the ; House of Commons today, Sir Charles Dilke/ the Under-Secre-tary of State for Foreign Affairs, made ■a .; statement regarding the negotiations for the settlement of the Turko-Greek difficulty. He announced that the Su'tan had finally, accepted the understanding which had been arrived at between] the Porte and the Hellenic Government. In the House of Commons this evening, the Irish Land Bill again came up for consideration on the second? reading. In the course of the debate/ Lord Elcho, member .- for Haddingtonshire, acting on behalf "~ on the ConseVatives, made a spee«h, in which h.e strongly denounced the provisions of tHe bill, and concluded \ by inoymg its rejection, as a whole, : by the Housed The discussion on , continues. - . '. T .. . A aiinisteriai ißili has, been intro- '"'" duced by the Eight jHon. SV. E..^ Gladstone, providing that persons who are permitted to affirm in Courts of Law should be authorised to make an affirmation, on their entry into Parliameitti in the place of the cus- ,, • ternary oath of allegiance. Mr ;Labouohere, M.P for North- -— ftmpton, has given notice in the House of Commons of a motion condemning the proposal, to be submitted shortly by the Premier, that fi&(cLs should be' voted foi* the erectfbn oi a' monument to [tfy late. Earl of Beaconsfield in Westminater Abrr^- _ BrdMay. •■",.'..,^.Mr J^bnDiiHoß, M,P. for Tipper,,^7; ary, and one' of the chief agitators i^*)of ! <^ r^|n^ L|ft^e. r^j|fis -bien - arrested wliwand oh a warrant issued

by the Viceroy under the Coercion Act. May 4. Information has been received by the Admiralty that a terrible cxploplosion occurred on board the British man-of-war Doterel, on April .20, when off Sandy Point, in the Straits of Mngellau, causing the total wreck of the vessel, and great loss of life, only the captain and ten others surviving the disaster. Nothing is known as to the canse of the explosion. . Melbourne, May 8. Both Houses of Parliament reassembled today after tlie recess. In the, Legislative" Council, Sir Charles Sladen made a statement regarding the Reform Bill. He said he had no objection to the same but he cdnsidered it useless to discuss the measure further, as he was convinced no agreement would be arrived at with the Assembly. ■: • May 4. Private telegrams from EnjfTand state that the Highland Railway Company received the amount of an insurance on the steamer Ferret, alia* the India, which was reported at Home to have been lost.