LATENT CABLEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 254, 24 December 1878, Page 2

LATENT CABLEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]}

(rbuter's special Tα the press AGENCY,) London, Dec. 21. The Committee of the London Stock Exchange have expelled four members and suspended two others for nnfair dealings in bank shares.

(Bedtbr's pkr Press Agency.) London Dec. 21. The marriage of the Duke of Cumberland and the Princess Thyra of Denmark was celebrated to-day. Bombay, Dec. 20. It is stated on good authority that the Ameer has left Cabul for Turkistan in company with the returning officers of the Kussian Mission. Troops are deserting Yakob Khan. Dec. 21. An official despatch just received folly confirms the statement of the flight of the Auaeer 1 into. .Turkistaa r ! leiring his son Yakob Khan'in power. -;?j :

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS: (PER PRESS. AGNCY.) : Napier, Dec. 28. The Chief Karaitiana has been ill lately, and his malady seeme to have affected his head. Yesterday afternoon lie was so violent that he had to be put under the restraint of a straight waistcoat. He was stopping at the Criterion, and the noise lie made attracted a large crowd outside the hotel. Quarters were provided for him last evening, to which he was removed. To-day the burgesses of Napier are polling on the question of whether a loan of seventy thousand pounds shall be raised, to consolidate old loans and provide for drainage and sewerage. Dcnedin, Dec. 23. At a meeting of the Amalgamated Carpenters' and Joiners' Society, the following resolution was carried:— " That we view with alarm the continued influx of Chinese, and co-operate with our fellow-men in Wellington to put .1 stop to it, and recommend that a fine of £50 per head be inflicted on all captains of vessels bringing Chinese to New Zealand."