CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1313, 22 June 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

— LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. frectEr : s telegram, pbr press association) London, June 19. ' Earl Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has announced that he has been informed that Sir William Fox and Sir Dillon Bell, Commissioners appointed by the New Zealand Government for the settlement of the Waimate Plains dispute, had had a satisfactory interview with Tito Kovraru, and an amicable settlement of the difficulty was expected to be brought about. Pajus. June 20. The President of the Council of Ministers has proposed a plenary amnesty of all Communists. Athens, June 20. Extensive military preparations are going on, and the Greek army is being increased with the view of enforcing their claims. DIRECT AUSTRAL! A.i>

(reuter's telegram per press association. Sydney, June 21. ■:

The steamer Wanganui has. been wrecked at Clarence Heads, and sunk after striking a reef. All lives have been saved except two of the crew.. ; She is insured for L 3500 in the National of New Zealand, which company has reinsured for L3OOO. She was owned by Houghton, of Dunedin, and was commanded by Capt. Bayldon, who brought her from New Zealand.

- A meeting has been held at Wallsend, . at which speeches were made denouncing the proposed coal tax. . . Melbourne, June 22.

Mr. Collinß Levy, Secretary of the ! Melbourne Exhibition Commission, who is now on a visit to England, telegraphs that he has had 'an interview with the Prince of Wales, and that His Royal Highness said he hoped to be ahio to visit Australia, during the-time of the Melbourne Exhibition, and would do so unless prevented. The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company, which takes over Messrs. Hastings and Cunningham's wool business, has been floated, with a capital of one million.

The Sugar Company have sold 600 tons of sugar on New Zealand account. Advices from Foo Chow state that the new crop of Canton tea is inferior to that of last season.