BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (Reuter's Special.)

Tuapeka Times, Volume XV, Issue 832, 5 April 1882, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. ( Reuter's Special.)

London, March 27th. Adelaide wheat (ex warehouse) has advanced 6d, and is now quoted at 54s 6d. New Zealand ditto remains at 51s. Adelaide flour (ex store) has advanced to 38s 6d. At the wool sale to-day 11,000 bales were catalogued. Prices were firmly maintained. Inferior and faulty wools of all kinds are in favor of buyers.

The Australian liner Falmouth, 983 tons, has become a total wreck oft" Gravesend. Five of the crew are missing, and are believed to have been drowned. March 28th. The steamship Durham has gone ashore ut Gravesend during a heavy oalo which has been experienced. It is not known whether her position is dangerous. It is announced that the Most Rev. Edward M'Cabe, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, has received the cardinal's hat. Serious outrages continue to be committed in the disturbed districts in Ireland. News is to hand to-day that an attempt has been made in Donegal to destroy a farmhouse with an explosive bomb. The missile was thrown, and the explosion caused serious damage to the house, but the inmates escaped without injury. Messrs Parnell, Dillon, and O'Reilly have applied to be released from custody on parole. It is not yet known what answer has been returned by the authorities to the request. The division on the cloture proposals of the Government will take place in the House of Commons on Thursday next. At the wool sale to-day 9,400 bales were offered. The tone of the sale was firm. Later. In the House of Commons to-day, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, made a statement with regard to the position of affairs in Irelaud. He said there were hopeful signs of a cessation of disorder, but that outrages must be stopped, or the Government would be compelled to ask the House to authorisetheadoption of stronger measures for the suppression of agrarian and political crimes. It has transpired that Government have refused the request of Messrs Parnell, Dillon, and O'Reilly, that they should be liberated on parole. In the city of Dublin to-day, a murder has been committed under circumstances which point to the crime as having been committed from political motives. March 29th. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, is unchanged at 54s 6d : New Zealand do at sls. At the wool sales to-day 7300 bales were catalogued. The tone of the sale was again firm. The election of a member of the House of Commons for Carnarvon, iv the room of tho late Mr W. B. Hughes (Liberal) took place to-day, and resulted in the return of Mr George Parry, the Liberal candidate, by a large majority over the Radical candidate. Five persons have been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the murder committed yesterday in Dublin, the motive for which is supposed to have been a political one. A number of arms and several papers of a seditious nature were found iv the possession of the accused. These were seized by the police. The Right Hon. John Bright has introduced in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Government, a bill to dsfranchise, on account of corrupt practices, the boroughs of Boston, Macclesfield, and Canterbury, and to further suspend for the same cause the seats for Chester, Gloucester, Oxford, and Wigan. March 30th. It is expected that Government will have a majority of 26 in the division on the cloture proposals in the House of Commons to-night. The protest against the construction of the projected tunnel under the Channel is being largely signed, and by many influential persons. Adelaide wheat (ex warehouse) remains at 55s 6d, and New Zealand ditto at 51s Bd. Adelaide flour (ex store), 37s 6d. At to-day's wool auction 30,000 bales were offered, and a decidedly firmer tone was experienced. It is announced that the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliver the Budget statement on April 21st. The sister of Mr A. P. O'Connor, M.P. Land Leaguer, who has recently been openly inciting tenants to pay no rent, has been arrested on the charge and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. April Ist. Telegrams are to hand from Central Asia, reporting that the Russians have organised regular caravans between, their present posts near the Caspian Sea and Merv, in Turkeystan. The Oxford and Cambridge boat-race was rowed to-day, and resulted in an easy victory for Oxford by six lengths. The wool sales closed with good spirit, and without further quotable change in prices. The total quantity sold during the series was 260,000 bales; 190,000 have been held over for the new season. Dr Lamson, who is under sentence of death for the murder of his brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm John, Wimbledon, in December last, has been respited until the 18th instant. Sir Henry Parkes was entertained at dinner to-day by Lord Sherbrooke. Among other guests present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and other distinguished statesmen. Paris, March 28th. Telegrams are to hand from Tunis announcing that numerous bands of insurgents are still scouring the country, and that a body of the rebels are committing serious ravages on the towns and villages in the vicinity of Gabes, a seaport on the , southern coast. Madrid, March 30th. Great opposition is being shown in many parts of Spain to the increased taxation recently imposed by the Government. In Barcelona especially, and in other parts, the feeling against the demands of the authorities has run so high thit serious riots have occurred, and the military have had to be called out to suppress the disturbances. Later. Owing to the increasing disturbances and rioting arising out of the opposition shown to the additional taxation which is being levied, the province of Catalonia his been declared in a state of Biesje. Berlin, March 30th. The Prussian Diet have voted measures providing for the enlargement of the' scope of the ecclesiastical laws of Prussia. St. Petersburg, March 31st. News is to hand fion Odessa that General Strelmkow, public prosecutor at that town, has been shot at and killed. April Ist. Two Nihilists charged with being implicated in the assassination of General Strelmkow, at Odessa, have been arrested - The sentence of death passed on 10 prominent Nihilists in February last has, in the case of nine, been commuted by the Czar to penal servitude for life. The capital sentence will be carried out in the case of the other prisoner. Later. Later telegrams to hand from Odessa report that the two murderers of General Strelmkow, the Public Prosecutor, have

been found guilty after a summary trial, and were hanged to-day.

April 3rd. It has transpired that the respite which has been granted to Dr Lamson is due to the exertions of the United States Government. It is now alleged that Dr Lamson is insane.

The announcement of the execution of the murderers of General Strelmkow, public prosecutor at Odessa was premature. They were respited at the last moment. Capetown, March 28th.

The Colonial Secretary for Cape Colony (the Hon. J. 0. Molteno), in the course of a speech which he made to day, announced that the Cape Government have decided to repeal the ordinance providing for the disarming of the Basutos, and that a Royal Commission would shortly be appointed to examine and report upon the grievanc-s of Basutos who had remained loyal during the war.