CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 261, 17 January 1879, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN

(from the lyttelton times.)

London, Jan. 10,

There are innumerable intending exhibitors in the Sydney International Exhibition.

The differences between the miners and coalowners are increasing.

The Trade Returns for December show the imports have decreased five and a half millions, and the exports one and a half, as compared with 1877. Lord Beaconsfield's health is completely restored Jan. 11. Money is now plentiful, with " slack discount demand. The Bank minimum is unchanged.- The market rate on three months"" bills is four per cent. Bank reserve steadily increasing, and is now over ten and a half millions. The Bank has advanced the Government £3,500,000.

The Stock Market is steady, and consols are rising. They are now 95f. The market for Australian securities is remarkably firm. The corn market is unchanged.

The Ameer of Affghanistan receives sympathetic hospitality from Russia in Turkestan. The Russian budget proposes increased taxation to equalise the revenue and expenditure. * ::; :A The rand Vizier of Turkey .proposes to reduce the army to a minimum, and to decentralise the provinces. Jan. 12. General Roberts, on Jan. 8., attacked the Afghan irregulars, and after a severe and protracted contest, the Afghans *were defeated, with a loss of 500 killed, numerous prisoners, herds iff cattle, and quantities of grain. , M ars bal.Espialtb, the Spanish statesman, is dead. Jan. 13. The Times has reason to believe that YakoobKhan has been officially informed by the Indian Government of the conditions of peacei; which are such as can honourably be accepted. The Midland Institute at Birmingham, containing the largest Shaksperian Library in the world has been totally destroyed by fire. A Russian commission has been appointed to consider the best means to be adopted for reducing the public expenditure. New Zealand fives 100. The November mail has been delivered. Adelaide wheat is a shilling lower ; the total afloat is a million and a-half quarters. Jan. 14. The Frenchman named Maddin, who threatened to shoot the Qneen, is under detention in Dartmoor Prison. The distress in the operative districts is increasing. Bombay, Jan. 11. A powerful tribe of Mangals has

assumed a threatening attitude. General Roberts has consequently decided to return to Kurum to concentrate his forces. The Sirdars of Cabul have written to Major Cavagnari in friendly terms. The latest adv ces state that Afzul Khan, .commanding' A Afghans at Candahar, disbanded his array and left the province. General Donald Stuart was one day's march from Candahar on Jan. 8. Jan. 12. The Deputy-Governor of Candahar has tendered complete submission to the British, and now awaits the arrival of General Biddulph's forces to surrender the city. Candahar was formally entered on Jan. 9. The other leading officials and the troops fled to Herat. Jan. 13. General Donald Stuart and his forces marched through Candahar unopposed.