CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 317, 1 August 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

(Reuter*s Telegrams.)

(from the lyttelton times.)

Bombay, July 28.

Colonel Cavagnari, the British Resident, has arrived at Cabul, and received a brilliant reception. The Ameer, Yakoob Khan, was most friendly, and the inhabitants were all very respectful. London, July 28. Advices from South America report that the Peruvian ironclad man of war Huascar had forced the blockade of Iquique. She claims to have disabled two Chilian vessels. July 29. The estimated qriantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain to-day is 1,480,000 quarters. Catherine Webster, convicted tor the murder of Mrs Thomas at Richmond, was hanged to-day. "The European' Telegraph Conference has terminated. A word rate will :be. introduced through Europe. 'Proper names will be disallowed as code words, but groups Of three figures will •be allowed instead. The alterations commence in April next. : . ', Colonel Cavagnari - and... the leading Afghan Generals are to be appopted Knights of the Bath. * Constantinople, July 28. The office of Grand Vizier has been abolished. [Age Special.] London, July 28. The Nihilist agitation still occasions much alarm, and ,more incendiary fires have occurred in the large Rnssian cities.