CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 330, 16 September 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(Renter's Telegrams.)

,["Speoialto the Mail.]

London, Sept. 11.

A meeting has been held as. Dublin of Home Rulers,- when a resolution was adopted to found a convention of 300 delegates, who should constitute an official Irish Parliament.

London, Sept. 13.

At the wool sales to-day 6600 hales were catalogued. Prices were; firm, and there was an active demand. ( _, The- -following- vessels l have arrived from Lyttelton—Sailed, Jane 3, Coriolanus';' Crbssfieldy sailed June 5". l Later news from the Cape states that Sir Garnet Wolsley in an interview with the principal chiefs that __ululand was in a hopeless condition, under an independent c|iief,, aiyl .that the non-capture of Oetewayp was, the only; obstruction to ! the conclusion of peace.

(FrW THE-LYTTELTON, TIMES.) I

-'"'"{ ' '.V\"'" .'London, 'Sept. 12. i . The, Directors of the West of England Bank have ibeen, committed for trial for the publication of balances 1 with fictitionsstateineh.tr; t ' J ' '[ , (HeRALDv SPECIAL.) Lonpon, Sept. 12. It is reported in Simla that Yakoob Khan has been assassinated by the fanatical murderers of Colonel Cavagnari. The Ameer was besieged for several days in his Palace. He resolutely repudiated the treachery 6f the rebels. Cabul is completely .in. the hands of the mutinous soldiers, , who ; ..have, locked the city, andi are committing revolting outrages' on the inhabitants. - - ' The" British troops are advancing; b| forced marches on Cabul, hitherto without encountering any resistance. The Imperial Government contemplate adopting measures. to limit the borrowing powers of the Colonies..

Calcutta, Sept. 11. The conflicting rumors that are current with reference to Burmah are unreliable. It is certain that British relations are critical, and diplomatic relations have been broken off, and orders have been given for the withdrawal of the Staff Mission from Mandalay.