CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 263, 24 January 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUBOPEAN.

(from the lyttelton times.) ■-.-••iv- London, Jan. 18. Four thousand bales "wool were sold , * * privately at Liverpool. The auction sales are neglected. Jan. 20. .Several t attempts on the part of Affghans to murder the British officers at Candaliar have been frustrated and promptly punished. ■■ Advices .from the Cape say that *•' Cetewaya has assented to some of the ! British demands, nnd has asked time to consider the others. This the Go- , „ vernment positively refuses, and troops'* are now being massed on the frontiers.In consequence of a compromise between the Ministry and the Republican leaders, the Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence by a large majority. Further advices from the Cape state that Cetewayo is massing his forces in large numbers, and there appears little I hope of averting war. * , Jan. 21. ?| Mr Foster, at Bradford, regretted that ~ ' protection doctrines had extended to the Colonies. He condemned reciprocity, * and eulogised the example of Sydney. A compromise has been effected by \ the Ministry, which necessitates the alteration of the French Government officials. The trial of the Glasgow' Bank Directors has been commenced. A vote of censure was unexpectedly carried against the Government in the French-Assembly. The Ministerial 1 * statement ,was» considered insincere. The majority was 102.