CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 353, 5 December 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST .EUROPEAN.;

(Reuters Telegrams.) [ Special to the Mail.} London, Dec. 2. . The Queen is suffering from a sev.eEe cold. .:'<.": • At the wool sales to-day 7,700 bales were catalogued. The tone of the .mar- • ket is firm. * Madrid, Dec. 2. '.' The vineyards inMalaga have been attacked by- the phylloxera,-, 29,6G0 hectares are diseased. The pest is in creasing. '' (from the lyttelton times.) . *j ' ... ■•-■• ■■ . London, Dec. 1. iThree percent consols ex dividend. ; . i^ : At the wool to-day 8000 /bales . were catalogued. The tone of. the market is firm, with active demand. For low scoured prices wore rather weaker. It is reported that the alleged indisposition of the Queen is based on a . paragraph in the Globe, not confirmed. Calcutta, Dec. 1. Yakoob Khan has beeif* conducted to Peshawur by order of the Viceroy. St. Petersburg, Dee. 1. Leon Mirski-, the murderer of General Drenteln, has. been sentenced to death. - v " °" Cairo, Nov. 29. * The relations are critical between Egypt and Abyssinia, in consequence of the hostile attitude of. the King of Abyssinia. '~ ; - [Abous' Special..] -,;■-": '-■■.London", N0v.30. The first meeting of 50,000 in Hyde Park condemned the Irish arrests, and demanded 1 reforms of the* land laws." : The Pope has written to" Archbishop M-Cabe, of Dubh'ii, deprecating agitation on the ground that Government is ■ .anxious to redress the grievances. ' " A Vienna telegram states that the . ■* Porte is insincere in its professed willingness to. initiate reforms. Obituary — Michel Chevalier, (the , political economist). [AcE-SrEcrAL.J ; Lon oox, Nov 30. At the Home Rule Demonstration inHyde Park 100,000 persons were pre- -. sent. Mr O'Conno:* Power presided. The murder of jftuklitar Pasha is denied. .. • "% ,''- *' '■ Dec. 2. Tlie QuJejiyndisp&isition ifc- severe although n^^^M-s. J The has determined ioajsp<"4ft£ to sit at Lahore, ap_HPi c Ameer, Yakoob Kann, for complicity in the Embassy massacre at Cabul. \ .(Herald Special.) *4 r """ ■ Undated. sent a native envoy to Turkestan to treat with the indepen- jf dent chiefs with a view of counteracting Russia's intrigues. The British are still undisturbed in the occupation of Cabul. Mr Roebuck, late member for Sheffield, /s dead. ; The President recommends Congress to increase the provision to secure the >. efficient representation of America at the' Melbourne Exhibition. The Press ' i approves.