CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3765, 2 March 1874, Page 2

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

London, February 14th..

The folloAving members of the Government were rejected:—Chichester Fortescue, President of the Board of Trade, at Louth ; Hon. A. Greville, Junior Lord of the Treasury, at Westmeath; Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Comptroller of the Queen's Household, at KUdare ; Hon. Mr Ayrton, Judge AdvocateGeneral, at Tower Hamlets ; Hon. Mr Hifcbert, Under-secretary of the Home Depart^ meat, Oldham; Viscount Enfield, UnderSecretary' of the Foreign Department, 'atf Middlesex.

Bank returns are stronger. Gold exportshave ceased. Australian securities have improved. Wheat is drooping, owing to large expected arrivals.

February 16 th.

The Right Hon. George Young, Lord. Advocate for Scotland, has been defeated afc Wigton.

The Queen is at Windsor. There was a meeting of the Cabinet today to decide about the resignation of the Miuistry. A most disastrous fire has occurred at the Pantechnicon, Motcomb street, Belgrave Square—an establishment for the sale of carriages anel warehousing of property. Pictures to the value of £250,000 anel an immense quantity of valuable furniture have been elc3troyed.

February 17th. Mr Gladstone goes to Wirdsor to-day te* tender the resignation of the Ministry. The Queen has accepted the patronage of the Bengal Famine Fund.

The Emperor of Russia is expected to visit London on the Ist of May. Cape Coast news of 26 th January states that the troops are expected to enter Cotnnassie on the 29th January. The termination of the war is anticipated about the 7tl\ of February.

The London Colonial wool sales opened. this evening. The total arrivals up to date amount to IGO.OOO bales ; upwards of 5500 were submitted to competition. The attendance both of home anel foreign buyers waa good, at iii the biddings commenced with, great spir.t. Prices rule ahout the same as at last series.

Tec mails from Australia via San Francisco and Brindisi, were delivered in London;

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The following are amongst the arrivals ixt time for the wool sales :—Lady BoAven, Patriarch, Ramsay, Glencairn, Benmore, Duke of Sutherland, Superb, Thomson, Ranee, Agamemnon, Macduff, Miitiades, Mernienis, Hampshire, Jerusalem, Gartside, La-

fra, Otalka, Darra, Adelaide, Craigendarroch, Halcione, and Countess Kintore. February 19th. The Queen has accepted Mr Gladstone's resignation, and Mr Disraeli is engaged in tlie formation of a new Ministry. The elections are concluded. The returns show that 351 Conservatives and 302 Liberals have been elected. Mr Cardwell, Mr Chichester Fortescue, and Viscount Entielel will be raised to the peerage. There is an indication of a revival of the Eastern question; it is being discussed by the German anel Frtnch Press. Obituary.—King Lunalilo, of the Santhvich "Islands. |St Petersbukh, February 16th. The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria ihas been most cordially received. The Czar, in drinking the health of his guest, saiel that friendship with Austria, Russia, Germany, and England would secure peace with I the world.