CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 249, 6 December 1878, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(SPECIAL TO THE PRESS AGBNCY.) London, Nov. 30 (Evening).

The diplomatic correspondence which has recently passed between the British and Russian Governments in reference to Russian proceedings in Central Asia was issued . from the Foreign Office to-day. It further shows that in reply to the first despatch of Lord Salisbury asking explanations, the Russian Chancellor even denied that any formally accredited mission had been sent to Cabul. This was subsequently explained in the manner previously telegraphed—namely, as an act of General Kauffjnann, the Governor-General of Turkestan. Dec. 2. Mr Gladstone, when addressing his constituents at Greenwich, refuted the accusation of the Secretary of State for India that-the late Cabinet were responsible for the Affghan difficulties, or that any action of the Liberals had; caused

estrangement between the Ameer and r-*- the Government. Be also added /that . in his opinion the war was unjust. , ■:' * .■r.V'' x xDec. 3. A message from thePresiderit of the w United Sta.p. promises that an iuvestiwill be held into the electoral return frauds in the Southern Stafps. He deprecates any change in existing financial legislation. It is generally reported that the Russian ambassador at Constantinople has informed the Grand Vizier that the Russians would hold Adrianople, Thrace, and other important points until the departure of the British ironclad * squadrou. The Canadian new four per cent loan of three million is issued. Half the loan is guaranteed by the British ■* Government. There are rumors that Parliament will be dissolved in January. The Viceroy's telegrams of the evacuation of Jellalabad is confirmed. There are no Affaghan troops nearer the Khyber Pass than Cabul. . St. Petersburgh, Dec. S. The Emperor of Russia, visiting <» Moscow, in a speech hoped that a definite treaty of peace would be concluded shortly.