CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1237, 5 April 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (REOTKR : S TELEGRAM, PER PRESS j Londok,'April 2i ; y The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,930,000 Best Australian beef tallow, 34s j best mutton, 355. The total stock of tallow in London on the Ist instant was 17,000 casks. New Zealand wheat, per 4061b, ex warehouse, 47s k.j. i. - ....... Both the Liberal candidates have been elected for Chelsea. Th"e*Queens]arldloan"bfL3,ooo,ooo at 4 per, cent.y :isannounced, - but L 2,000,000* only will be issued at present. The election returns, so far as known, show that 175 Liberals and 103 Conservatives have been elected. ' The Liberals have gained 48 seats, aid loss 18. Leeds has returned Mr. Gift da tone by an enormous majority. Lord Hartington has been re-elected for New Radnor without opposition.

The Conservative papers foreshadow a change of Ministry. Both the Liberal candidates have been elected by a large majority for Soutliwark, thus reversing the decision of the 13th February, when a Conservative was elected to fill the place of the deceased Liberal membep. Both the Liberal candidates have been elected by large majorities for Chelsea. April 3, The Liberals have gained nineteen seats to-day ; the total numbers gained being 50 Liberals, and 20 Conservatives. The sitting members for Lambeth and Tower Hamlets have been Two Liberals have been elected for j Marylebone by large majorities. Mr. Bradlaugh, a Radical candidate, has been elected by a large majority for Northampton. The Eight Honorable James Lowther, Cliief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has been defeated by a small majority for York. A change of Ministry is considered inevitable, and the Times publishes a paragraph stating that it is quite probable that Lord Granville will form a Ministry. St. Petersburgh, April 3.

The relations between Russia and China are considered as being very critical, the latter having declined a ratification of the treaty releasing Russia frrm restoring Kuldjaj a report also being current that Chinese troops have crossed the river Amoor, thereby constituting open hostility to Russia,

DIKT3CT AUSTRALIAN NKWS (renter's telegram per press association. ) Melbourne, April 3. The second son of His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby is dead. - Sydney;, April- 3. At the Randwick Races for the Cumberland Stakes," Petrea was Ist; Martindale, 2nd; Sweetmeat, 3rd. Four started. Won easily. SuwaiTow was last. Time—-3mins. 47secs. The following Exhibition awards have been announced to-day -First prizes : Burt, for lead piping'; Buchanan, for illustrations of grasses.; Colonial Museum,- geology and natural history; Professor Haast, for ethnology; An Tin. Wilson, of Dunedin, for lace.; Mrs. Beal, for shell ornaments. Second prizes: Burt, for bottling machine; Burton, for taxidermy; Jennings, for stuffed birds.. Sundry £*ew Zealand exhibitors in the foregoing Glasses take 3rd and 4tli prizes.