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Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 155, 6 May 1873, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, April 24. Wool tales opened. Six thousand fho hundred bales offered out of 200,000 arrivals Victorian mostly offered. Attendance large ; biddings spirited. Prices same a* February sales. Gladstone, in tho Jlo'i«> of Common*, siiul the correspondence with Risii cub j>lied a negative pledge that Affglinnstan wns outside the sphere of her influence m Asia. Secondly, settlement of AlL'gjiauslan. boundaries. Thirdly , pledge that England would ox'ert her moral influence to restrain the Ameer from aggression. Eurl I)e "Warr lias committed uUicide. Lowes resolutions ha>e pntsod with tlio exception of tho sugar duties. This is to be recommitted. The Government defer (.onsidoring th« question of local taxation. Russian movement* continue to cau^o much irritation in England. Eastern Australian Mail Compann's prospectus issued. News h:is been recencdof tlie safety of Sir Samuel Baker's expedition. He sent rchet to \.\\ uigstone. The Pope has reeo\ered from hi* dangerous illness, but expects hiv condition to bo kept secret The February Southampton mail lift* arrived. The Dutch troops have leui lcpulaul at tho island of Sumatra. April 18. Russia and Prussia hare exchanged notes respecting n» violation of boundary by Russian troops during a ikirmiih with Turcomans in the valley of Attruck. Russia admits tho possibility of a violation on the occasion referred to, but promises to respect the boundary henceforth. April 19. New Zealand hemp : 1,000 bushels sold but at a decline. New Zealand consolidated fives, 103. Arrived : Robert Henderson, from Nelson. April 22. The Carlists have been further defeated by the Government troops in Northern Spain. In the House of Commons Mr Eastwick, member for Ponryn, in moving for the production of correspondence on the Khivan question, dwelt at some length on the alarming progress made by Russia in Central Asia. Mr Grant Duft', Under-Secretary for India, denied that Russian advance jii'tilicd any alarm, though he admitted that it was a matter requiring \igilance. The motion was then withdrawn. The Dutch have been disastrously repulsed in attacking Aelnvn, and compelled to retreat to the coast. At a council of w nr it w 08 resolved to suspend further progression with the expedition until autumn, in consequence of the monsoon season. New Zealand Road Act Amendment Bill passed.