NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 6956, 7 September 1883, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.

(SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

(rsutee’s telegrams )

(Received September 6, 1 p.m.) FRANCE AND CHINA,

ANXIETY IN ENGLAND. London, September 5.

Muck aarioty prevails id England in consequence of the threatened rupture between France and China. Capetown, September .5.

Intelligence is to hand trom Zululand that Cetewayo, with a strong force, is still in the raserred territory. He has summoned the TJsutus to his aid; and is adopting a defiant attitude towards the British Resident in Zululand.

Melbourne, September 6.

At a sale of stud sheep yesterday one of Mr John Cumming’s four-tooth rams, by Lustre, sold for 3150 guineas, to Mr J. F. Camming.

(Received September 6. 2.40 p.m)

London, September 5.

The British India Steam Navigation Company’s new steamship Nuddea, sailing from Glasgow on the 20th instant for Queensland with immigrants, is working under the bounty system. The Company intend despatching other steamers with bounty immigrants, at regular intervals, in addition to their regular fortnightly steamers to Queensland.

(Received September 6, 8 p.m.) LATEST tMAEKETS.

London, September 5.

Consols remain at 100$, and New Zealand securities at yesterday’s quotations. The market for colonial breadstuff's continues dull. Adelaide wheat is unchanged at 475, and New Zealand ditto at 44s to 465. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 335. Australian tallow—Best beef, 40s ; best mutton, 41s. A fair demand for the various lots offered was generally experienced at to-day’s wool sale. Port Phillip and greasy wools are, however, $d to Id lower than at the close of last sales.

Sydney, September 6.

Sailed, this afternoon—P.M..S. Zealandia, for San Francisco, via Auckland, with £150,000 specie. MEETING OF N.S.W. PARLIA-

MENT.

A proclamation has been issued today, summoning the New South Wales Parliament to meet for the despatch of business on October 9. THE EECENT GALES IN THE ATLANTIC.

Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters’ Association.—London, September 5 : Arrived—Ship Archer, from Lyttelton, April 27. A succession of gales of extraordinary violence has been experienced during the last two days. The Lady Jocelyn, outward bound, has put into Spithead for repairs. The City of Tanjore jettissoned 90 tons of cargo, and put bade. The Sydenham, Aldborough, Legards, and Cairnbulg have put into various ports for repairs.

(Received September 6, 7.30 p.m.)

THE FEANCO-CHINE3E DIFFI-

CULTY.

London, September 5.

The Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambassador at Paris, lias been requested by the French Government to explain the entry of Chinese troops into Tonquin. In the event of the answer proving unsatisfactory they will be expelled. China will ask England to mediate in the matter. ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES.

Sir Henry Bartle Prore, in an article in the National Review, advocates that, pending the attainment of colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament, the Agents-General of the various colonies should form a Colonial Council of Advice to the Imperial Cabinet. He also speaks highly of ths Agents’ Pacific despatch. The Pall Mall Gazette says that if Prance seizes the New Hebrides, Mr Gladstone will find it difficult to resist the pressure of the Australasian colonies for a far wider annexation than any yet contemplated.