LATE BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3159, 18 May 1883, Page 2

LATE BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The May wool sale opened yesterday, 6600 bales were cataloged. There was a fair attendance, of buyers, and the bidding proceeded with caution. Good wools realised the rates which were realised last series. Faulty scoured and low crossbreds are a shade lower.

The Victorian Government have purchased a Highland landscape, by H. W. B. Davis, B.A. Two other pictures that were exhibited in the Royal Academy have been purchased for the Adelaide National Art Gallery.

Sir Anthony Musgrave, who recently accepted the Governorship of Queensland, has left Jamaica. The Usibepu under Ohara have given battle to Getewayo and defeated him, inflicting a loss of 6000 men.

The reported death of the Count de Chambord is incorrect. The new Constitution confers universal suffrage on the Egyptian population over twenty years of age, The Land Leaguers are dismayed at the Pope’s circular. Mr Sexton, M.P., contends it does not apply to the laity. A Highland regiment is now in garrison at Port Said. The Agent General for Queensland (Mr Archer), in a letter to the “ Times,” denies that the colony has any desire to enslave the Papuan inhabitants of New Guinea under any form of labor traffic.

An infernal machine has been discovered at Ballina, and six men have been arrested in connection with the discovery. The Sultan promises reforms in Armenia.