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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 653, 18 March 1879, Page 2

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March. ls. Tenders are invited for a cable to the Cape. • ..... In tlie Comn^ons, . to-day, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs announced that he had been informed that the arms and ammunition that had been shipped fsom Manchester to Mozambique were not intended. for. the Zulus. . ■; The Chancellor of the Exchequer m replying to a question, said it is hot intended to suspend Lord- Chelmsford from the command of the British forces at Natal. . ... Mutton tallow is quoted at 40s. The latest Cape news is, that t\\e Zulus are inactive m consequence of the arrival of H.M.S frigate Shah with reinforcements from St. Helena. The Commander in-Chief has decided to send a relieving force to Colonel Pearson at Ekowe. . The mails, per Kent, via Brindisi, were delivered yesterday. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach will ask Mr. Berry for further information, and rib definite reply will be given until the discussion m the House of Commons

on Mr. Mills' motion for the production of p^pors relating to the Victorian crisis. It is quite unlikely that the Government will introduce an Enabling .Act without knowing Berry's subsequent policy. At the same time the Government might entertain a proposal for reform m the Council by making it : a mixed elective and nominee body. Mills's motion is fixed for tlie Ist of April. Mr. Berry is to be; presented ; to the Prince of Wales at a levee on Monday. • The -Review says f in regard to.Berry's mission, that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach might usefully mediate. Mr. Berry met Lords Granville and Derby, and Messrs. 1 Gladstone, and Lowe at a dinner given by the Chairman of the Eastern Telegraph Company. There was a warm argument, Lord Granville protesting. . ; Money market m large supply, and commercial requirements small. Consols 96^-. : .•:• ■: ' - Australian securities remarkably : firm.' JNew Zealand 4| per cents, 97. The wool sales have developed weakness. The series close on the 27th. Wheat steady. Recent shipments of New Zealand have been of good quality, and: realised 48s. The Victorian Embassy has been successful, and the constitutional question settled. The Victorian Ambassadors have ofh'oially dined with Sir Michael • HicksBeach. Messrs. Gladstone, Bright, Lowe, Villiers, and Lords Derby and Shaftesbury were present. Mr. Childera accepts the AgentGeneralship of Victoria. ; Goneral Kauffmann has resigned the Governorship of Turkestan,, on account of being held responsible for manifestations of Hussian sympathy : with Afghanistan, prior to the war. Quarantine is ordered m Astrachan, except m one village.