CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1198, 18 February 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(kecter's telegram, per press association) London, February-16. During to-day's sitting the' House of Commons went into Committee on the Irish Distress.Relief Bill, "and an almenduient was proposed that the advance should be madq towards the relief fund from the Imperial treasury instead of from the Church Surplus, but it was defeated on a division.

Three per cent. Consols, 97|. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,760,000 quarters. : Rome, February 10, His Holiness, the Pope has issued an: Encyclical letter declaring that the law of divorce ha 3 an immoral effect. r. (BFEGL'.L to press association:) London. February 16, -

The exhibitors at the Melbourne' Exhibition are agitating for the withdrawal of fhe protective tariff, and compare Victoria badly with New South Wales. , The steamer Chimborazo, having received repairs, has left Plymouth. She carries the original mail. "' i! -" j

(SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE ARGUS.) ..... February 16, '"* In its'money article -'to-itay, iheiTimes publishes a memorandum from the! representatives of certain industries, who pur-' pose meeting to consider the withdrawal of their applications for space at.tlie Melbourne Exhibition', owing toi |he! tariff.'l'hey regretted tliat tlio proteative jsystem wjls uninodified prev.iou6.to the dissolution of Parliament, and that fresh legisl'a ion is Vegarded as liinpossible. iii .suflicient time for advujitagejto .be 'taken by exhibitors. The' policy' of South/:;JVates; is contrasted l fHVr>al>lj»V ß j Wheat is unchanged, but purcliasos are small,pending the collapse of the American ring, whew ttVuil j B pjpected.

(SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE AGB.) London, February 17. Earl Salisbury is still in a critical condition. The Chimborazo sailed yesterday. Q 1 DIRECT AOSTii.AL.IAN SEWS. ? a,Tj:£i;GEAM>EE6i , EE§S ASSiy3XA^H)N.), In|;h|ij tWmoj&ons fojgfciyd th£3|}euGpgjnti Gov^r merribfer of tnj^-'Legwative , other objecting to the Governor's use of the prerogative of m®fcy in the case of two of the Wantabadgery bushrangers, were rejected by a large majority. "sv%re tcr-d&,y,-'sliow f hatpin! in the population, of the "Colony hartelceri'-pacer ; ; • - BEiSßAira,JFebEuary;l%; The bushranger who " stuck np' 'the NfCti6"nal:Batikratr:GunnamuHay;-in-ihe-_ Waregot-district, ]ast. : month, r .has. been 'tried aiidsenteriSed"to'deatK • ; (special to press association.) Sydney, Feb. 18. The New Zealand five per cent, loan is at 107£.