CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 336, 7 October 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

(Reuters Telegrams.)

[Special to the Mail.] London, Oct. 3. Total reserve in notes and bullion in Bank of England, £20,875,000. Total stock of tallow in London at date 8500 casks. Oct. 4. The stock markets are buoyant. Cetewayo has arrived at Cape Town. Madrid, Oct. 4. The Cuban insurgents have been defeated with heavy loss. Rome, Oct. 3. At an interview between Signor Cairori and the Anstro-Hungarian Ambassador, friendly assurances were exchanged. Athens, Oct. 3. The negotiations of the Commission on the Greek frontier have come to, a standstill. (FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES.) London, Sept. 29. Three per cent consols are at 97£* Oct. 1. Three per cent consols, 98. Harvest operations are hindered by bad weather. Wheat, 565. A dividend of 3s 4d has been declared in favor of the depositors of the Glasgow Bank. The Directors of the Glasgow Bank have been released. An agrarian outrage has taken place in Ireland. An agent of the Marquis of Sligo was attacked at Castlebar, and one of the assailants was shot. In reference to the assertions of the Russian press, that Germany is.endeavoring to isolate Russia, the ?North German Gazette publishes an article declaring the latter would only be isolated if Germany were compelled to seek supporters elsewhere, and that Germany desires a pacific policy. Arrivals—True Briton, from Melbourne, July 8 ; Pleiades, from Wellington, June 11 ; Coromandel, from Lyttelton, June 25. [Age Special.] London, Oct. 8. The Sultan is very desirous of an an alliance being effected between Turkey and Austria, for the purpose of securing the execution of the Berlin Treaty in Bulgaria and Roumelia and in checking the machinations of Russia. Agrarian outrages are alarmingly increasing in Ireland. The Daily Telegraph, on the report of the second reading, considers Mr Berry's Reform Bill ill-advised. Bombay, Oct. 4. Shutargardan was unsuccessfully attacked by independent tribes from southwards in the evening. According to authentic information, communication is cut off on both sides of Shutargardan. The Indian Government are despatching reinforcements.