CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 361, 6 January 1880, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

J o — LATEST EUROPEAN. (Reuters Telegrams.) 1 (from the lyttelton times.) London, Dec. 31. ' Arrived— Ascalon, from Melbourne ; Benares, from Port Chalmers ; Orari, from Lyttelton; Ann Duthie, from Sydney. Jan. 2. General Sir Evelyn Wood has by j command of Her Majesty the Queen, been directed to accompany the Ex- ! Empress Eugenic on her visit to Zulu- f land next month. Jan. 3. The Garonne sailed from Plymouth • yesterday. Galvanised iron is £22 per ton. . Mr Parnell has gone to New York. Capetown, Dec. 29. £i The • Boers held a meeting, . and ;.'. £ adopted a resolution to re-assemble in - ;| April. Volksradd was elected President. \>l The chiefs have dispersed. Madrid, Dec. 29. f An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the King of Spain when entering the H%al Palace at Madrid. The assassin, who is named Gonzales, is & a Galician and a waiter. He fired twico, missir.g the King both times. It is N > , f believed that the extreme revolutionists y**' inspired the attempt. Gonzales and several others have been arrested. {

Calcutta, Pec. 29. Cabul is quieting. An active pursuit I the enemy is going on. General fiker is pursuing the Kohistanees. News from Afghanistan states that General North, commanding at Gundmak, defeated Mazatoola, a Ghilzai hief, severely. Bombay, Jan. 1. The dispersion of the Afghans since he action of Dec. 28 has been competed. The enemy lost 3000 killed. Constantinople, Jan. 1. The British Ambassador has sus>ended relations with Turkey, awaiting >rders jrom the British Government. Jan 3. The difficulty between England and Turkey has been compromised, and a ■eßumption of relations is probable tolay. St. Petersburg, Jan 1. The Empress of Russia is recovering rom a recent attack of pleurisy. [Argus' Special.] London, Jan. 1. - The retirement of M.M. Leon Say and Waddington is generally regretted. The crisis lias delayed the gazetting of the French Commission, and an extension of time for applications is anxiously expected. Sir Stafford Northcote's speech at Exeter was most significant. He bid for the publicans' vote, in view of an earh/election. It is reported that Mr Onslow informed the Claimant he would be released on Jaa. 12. Jan. 2, A fund has been initiated to compensate Edmond Galley, who, it was discovered some time ago, had been wrongfully sentenced to penal servitude for life, and for whom a free pardon was scut to Australia, where he was living at the-time. It has been ascertained that the' conduct of the Turkish Ministry, in regard to the representations of the British Government, arose through jealousy of Sir A. H. Layard's influence with the Sttitan. The Ministry persisted in evading the demands of the British Ambassador, and the latter was compelled to take a decisive stand. The Home Government has expressed its "regret at the incident, but supports Sir | Henry Layard, to whom it has given .CvnAkinche to deal with the Porte, according to his judgment, The Liberal party at Home generally approve of the actio* of the Government in the matter. It is expected that a compromise will be effected, and that England will not have to proceed to hostilities. The German and Austrian Ambassadors have both intervened, and recommended the Porte to arrange the matter. [Age Special.] London, Jan. 1. The German Chamber of Commerce urgejj Prince Bismarck to request the British Government to stop the practice of English merchants in exporting articles of German manufacture to Australia and Polynesia as English products. Jan. 2. Germany complains that General Chanzy, the French Ambassador at St Petersburg, is entering into antiGerman intrigues, with the object of fomefiting discord between Russia and Germany. v AUSTRALIA. (Reuters Telegrams.) [Special to Mail.] Sydney, Jan. 5. A petition is being signed in favor of commutation of the sentence of death passed upon Scott and Rogan, the Wantabadgery bushrangers. The execution of the prisoners is fixed for the 20thi instant. Brisbane, Jan. 5. The revenue of the colony during the last quarter amounts to £311,000, being a decrease of £37,000 compared with last year. The actual expenditure shows an increase of £13,000.