CABLEGRAMS

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1207, 28 February 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (kkoter's telegram, pkr press association) London, February 26. Three per cent, consols aro quoted at 97&. . ~ . Adelaide wheat and flour -are unchanged. • . ■ . - ■ The total reserve, in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is L 17,062,500. At the wool : salgs to-day, 10,800; bales were offered, making a total of 84,900 bales catalogued since opening. An increase has been firmly maintained. ; Washington, February 26. General Grant is generally accepted for the coming election fp.r President of the United States. St. Peteesbub.'gh,' February 26. Ail Imperial ukase has been published appointing General Malakoff head of the Supreme Commission Jfoi\the repression of disorder in the city. . has been invested with unlimited power' for the punishment of offenders. : (special to press association.) • .. . London, February 26. A waiter who was .employed in the Czarewitcli's palace lias beeti arrested. (SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE AGE.) | London, February 27. General Malakoff has succeeded Count Gourka as Governor of St. Petersburg. ; A Waiter employed m the palace of the Czarewitch : has been arrested on suspicion of being implicated hi the attempt to explode .the winter palace.. ;; j Latest news from Afghanistan' states that fighting is occurring at Herat; A Cabulese plot to murder the; Sultan of Turkey has been discovered. DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (REUTER S TELEORAJI PER PRESS ASS DOTATION.) Melbourne, February 27. The Union Steamship Co.'s s.s. Ringarooma lias arrived from New Zealand. The Provincial and Suburban Bank trial has been concluded. Hackett, Scott, Morgan, and Fawcett were fined LSO each, and Wills L 250. Sydney, Feb. 27. The proprietors of the Sydney Evening News are being ordered to show cause why they should not be committed for contempt for again publishing evidence in the t?ial of Shepherd and Dibbs, the publica-

v?i p J ,I^, ; ti<on of prohibited By oifier. f-y., y $x ??<} 'l% s" '/&. •. jT-r\ jZ£: v' February 28 4? The tpta! Colony towards' the amounts to L 20,000. (special to press association.) February 27» \.- - (Calcutta? in _cornsacks_ of 9s per hundred, and in woofpackSf ~ The marketria ri^ng. New"" Zealand e oats are depressed. A th(Jusand' bags:of'-good feed sold-afc>2s.ld. The Opposition, .are _ t confident of a majority.' o --^''* -* s ooi^iciUsi