LATEST GABLE NEWS.
[from our own correspondent.]
LONDON.
March 5. Mr. Berry has decided to offer three millions of the Victorian Loan at 98 cum dividend. Mr. Yardley, Secretary to the Victoriad Agent-General, retires in April, and succeeds Captain Jopp, R.E., present Secretary to the New South Wales Agent-General. Mapleson's great opera site on the Thames Embankment has been offered to the Colonial Museum for £4,000. In order to obtain early telegraphic communication y\ ith the Cape, it is contemplated to appropriate the duplicate cable now being constructed, for the purpose of connecting Aden and Natal. Papers relating to Victorian deadlock has been published. One of them is a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated February 17th, in which he states had Sir George Bowen originally acted in accordance with the views which afterwards induced Ministers partially to retrace their steps, the financial difficulties might have been overcome without any objectionable measure to which recourse had been made. Wheat a penny higher. Egyptian news states that the Hereditary Prince Tewfik, has been appointed President of the Council of Ministers, and Mihar Pasha has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
President Hayes has vetoed in Congress the Bill respecting immigration of Chinese.
There is a good deal of excitement in Greece respecting the rectification frontier as provided by the Berlin Treaty.
A band of Greeks destroyed a village in Thessaly, killing many persons. Russia may in consequence delay the evacuation of Turkey.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 645, 8 March 1879, Page 2
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