INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 333, 26 September 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

[from our own correspondent.] Wellington, Sept 25.

The report which appeared in a Christchurch paper that Mr Ballance was endeavoring.to form a third party was entirely without foundation. The Liberal: party will be unanimous in their sup-! port of --the Government if a motion -of want of confidence 'be brought forward. That motion will probably be- made tomorrow, as an amendment to the reply to the address. Both sides are confident of a majority. The Jssue will depend on one or two votes.. . .. \, (FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.) London, Sept. 15. The New Plymouth Harbour Debentures have been floated. £200,000 were subscribed for at from 95 to 97-J-. , The Times, in a leading article, announced that the Ameer will be called upon to co-operate with . the British advance, and to recognise publicly the justice and expediency of the measures to be taken to punish the perpetrators of the recent outrages.

The Daily Telegraph publishes a gram from Simla, stating that the complicity of Ameer Yakoob in the recent outrages is undoubted. Through a large army covering Cabul communication- has been cut off. Sept 16. The Times publishes a telegram from Candahar to the effect that the Ameer has summoned the troops at Herat and Balkh, together with the Ghilzai tribes, to assemble at Cabul for the prosecution of a religious war. Sept 17. The Ameer has written another letter, expressing his deep distress at the massacre and his confidence in the British Government. The British troops have advanced as far as Khussi, beyond the Shutargnrdan. The friendly tribes are generally quiet. Adelaide wheat, per 4961b5, ex warehouse, 51s. At the wool sales to-day 9400 bales were catalogued. The tone of the market is firm. The Bacchante has sailed with the sons of the Prince of Walep. The Curtois, 8000 tons, has been launched. Sept. 19. The Premier attended the Agricultural banquet at Aylesbury, and discussed lengthily the commercial depression. He upheld the present system of land tenure, and advised landlords to co-operate with farmers to encounter the depression. He refrained from any mention of politics.

The Standard publishes a telegram from India stating that the troops at Herat had mutinied and massacred the civil and military authorities. The total reserve in notes and coin in the Bank of England amounts to £22,125,000. Three per cent consols, 97-|. At the wool sales to-day, 40,000 bales were catalogued. There was a. large speculative enquiry. , . The Homeward mails via Brindisi were delivered to-day. Sept. 20. The report of the mutiny at Herat is confirmed. The ultimate destination of Cetewayo is unknown: He is at present at Cape Town. Harvest operations are nearly finished. The English crop is expected to be ouethird below the average, v At the wool sales to-day 4900 bales were catalogued. The tone of the market continues firm. Sept 22. Lord Havtington, in a speech, at a Liberal demonstration at Newcastle, compared the policy of the present Government to that of the second French Empire, and said that the principal task of the next Government would be to uudo the mischievous legislation of the present one. There is news from South Africa to the effect that Cetewayo and other Zulu chiefs have been sent to Capetown. Madrid, Sept. 16. The Spanish Government proposes that the emancipation of slaves in Cuba shall take place in the month of July of next year.

St Petersburg, Sept. 14. The Journal de St. Petersburg publishes an article recommending the despatch of a Russian army to defend Cabul and to expel the English Power from Central Asia. Vienna, Sept. 14. Constant conflicts have occurred between the Roumanian Christians and the Mussulman refugees. Calcutta, Sept. 15. The rumour that the British Mission had left Mandalay is contradicted, but nothing certain is at present known. BoMßay, Sept. 22. The Afridis and other tribes in the Khyber Pass have given solid guarantees for freedom from molestation to the British treopS.' General Roberts' force will therefore advance shortly by that

route.. , ... . :-■ : • ; -' : Cape Town Sept.2. Active operations are about to be made to reduce the Moirosi's stronghold. King Cetewayo has been captured. Information was received that the King was concealed in the Ngome Forest, in the vicinity of the Black Umvolosi river. He was unable to ride or walk. The Dragoons surrounded Getewayo. Sept. 3. King Cetewayo's followers having surrendered, they arrived at the camp at Ulundi. Those of them who attempted "to escape were killed. Cetewayo was Sent to Maritzburg and thence to Cape Town, Peace is now regarded as certain. A new Government will immediately be appointed. ;

Sir Garnet Wolseley has gone to the Transvaal to enforce the submission of Secocoeni. It is probable that peace in the North Transvaal will soon be restored. It is expected that the Boers will now acquiesce in the annexation of the Transvaal. Another of Ceteway ? s brothers has surrendered with an immense number of cattle and guns.

[Agk Special.]

It is officially contradicted that the Indian Government has asked for military reinforcements. The main body of the British troops are prepared to march by the end of September, and it is expected that they ■will reach Cabul by Oct. 25, The Russian Press now unanimously advocates the assisting of the Afghans.

' [Abgus' Special.]

London, Sept. 22.

The Afghan news is conflicting. The report of the Ameer's death is not confirmed, and the origin of the massacre remains unexplained. The London papers accept the statement that the revolt was instigated by the Ameer's brother, presiding at Herat. The English Press generally, while describing the disaster as due to the Ministerial policy, insists that the affront must be promptly avenged. The Times declaims that the disaster ought not to alter the resolve of/ the Government to place a British Resident in charge of each of the Afghan cities. Large draughts of Home regiments have been ordered. The strained relations between Germany and Russia still continue. An Austrian-German alliance has been projected. Extensive cotton strikes are imminent. 20,000 persons attended the tenants' rights meeting at Mallow, and passed a resolution demanding a large reduction in rents.