LONDON.
March 27. Tenders for the Queensland four per cent. loan,-. £1,184,480, amount subscribed £2,934,000, Those at £89- Is. Gd. and upwards, were accepted in full. Wool sales closed to-day. 230,000 bales were sold during the scries, and 30,000 held over for next sales. In a debate in. the House of Lords, on_. Zulu affairs, Lord Crambrook blamed Sir Bartle Frere, for precipitating a war with Cetawayo without obtaining the decision of a Cabinet. Relations between Turkey and Greece are becoming critical. Bulgarian refugees in Roumelia are returning home. Eighteen* thousand having re-crossed the Balkans. An insurrection has broken out in Macedonia. The Oriental Bank are finable to pay a dividend — its reserve is lost. A Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed in connection with the question us to Sir Bryan O'Loghlan's seat, have unseated him. Arthur Mills has given notice to ask Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to lay on the table copies of Victorian and other Australian tariffs. The s.s. Cuzco has sailed from Plymouth. In the House of Commons there was a lengthy discussion on a vote of want of confidence moved by Sir Charles Dilke, relative to the Zulu war. Earl Stanley said it .was inexpedient making a statement defending Sir Bartle Frere. The House agreed to an adjournment of the debate. March 28. The Under Secretary for India has asked leave to introduce a Bill, authorising a loan of ten millions Ito be raised by England for India. : ' ; • ; .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 663, 29 March 1879, Page 2
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