CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 988, 19 June 1879, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

r.ATJ-JST IIOMB AND FOREIGN NEWS. (kecter's telegrams per press association) London, June 18. In the House of Commons last night, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question, said that a despatch had been sent to the Marquis of Nortnanby, which would arrive in Melbourne in a few days. He also promised to produce at an early date all the papers in connection with the Victorian constitutional question. (SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AGE.) London, June IS. A revolution has broken out in the principal cities of Mexico, and the country is in a state of anarchy. Don Candido Earero, President of Paraguay, has been deposed, with a view to remodelling the Constitution. DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NSV-'S. (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, June 18. The Victorian Parliament will probably meet on the 14th July. Mi'. Berry's apparent intentions are to stare the session with the Estimates and the Reform Bill, the tone of which will be moderated.

Two of the lielly sympathisers were recently in Melbourne purchasing arms, the outlaws having run short. Warrants were issued for their arrest, but they were subsequently released, because it was desired to see where they went. J" ne 10. A dispatch received from thj Secretary of State for the Colonies says that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has not yet seen any suggestion securing final legislation that lie deemed free for election. He hopes there is no desire to confer complete practical supremacy on the Assembly. He credits both Houses with reasonable desires, and expects both to assist in the solution of the difficulty. These points were omitted in the Ministerial summary of the dispatch.

(IiECTEII'S TELEGRAM. P2R PREPS ASSOCIATION) Melbourne, June 18. The health of Lady Normanby is more satisfactory, though she is still week. Sailed—Arawata, with the mails.

Eight hundred of the Melbourne unemployed have already signed a petition to Mr. Berry asking for work. Kelly sympathisers have purchased from a Melbourne gunmaker 400 rounds of ammunition, suitable for the Spencer rifle, similar to those the Kellys secured at the time of the Mansfield police murder. It is reported that they have succeeded in eluding the police. June 19. The papers publish the text of Sir Hicks-Beach's despatch to Lord Normanby, • the subject of which has been fully anticipated by direct telegraph. The Legislative Assembly, last night, passed a vote of L 5,000,000 for location, and rejected a resolution regarding the financial administration of the Ministry which was tantamount to a vote of (? no) confidence, r Sailed : Wakatipu, for Wellington.