CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 251, 13 December 1878, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN

[reuter's special to the press AGENCY.]

London, Dec. 9

The West of England Bank's liabilities are three and a half millions. It is jgfclleged that the office has sufficient property, and that the suspension is possibly temporary. A revolution is reported in Cabul, causing the Ameer's flight to Turkestan. A German sailor, rescued in the Channel, reported that he was the sole survivor of the barque San Juan, bound" from Sydney to England with wool. She collided with a steamer off the Lizard.

* Princess Alice is alarmingly ill. Sir Hercules Robinson has been gazetted as Governor of New Zealand. Governorship of New South Wales still remains unsettled. It is hoped that the suspension of the West of England Bank is only . temporary. Dec. 10. The Princess Louise is very ill of diphtheria. The Secretary of State for the Indian Department in the House of Lords said, that whenever called upon, India would pay the" expenses of the ■%Affgan war. Eugif®d% assistance was not required, . considering that the Indisn surplus will be £500,000 after payinn expenses. England must be - paramount in Cabul. Mr Whitebrcad,- in the House of Commous, moved a resolution condemning the Government. A desultory debate ensued, and both Houses adjourned till Tuesday. (special to the globe.) London, Dec. 9. The West of England and South Wales Bank had a capital of a million, jj and forty-two branches in the manufacturing and mining districts.