LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 958, 27 August 1880, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (From Exchanges.) London. August 17. American wheat harvest prospects are favorable. The harvest is estimated at 500,000,000 bushels. Calcutta, August I7th. Intelligence has been received from Af ghanistan that a large body of Pathens attacked the British garrison at Kachmadan, hut were repulsed and pursued, and a severe loss inflicted on them. Further information to hand states that Ayoub Khan is now engaged bombarding Candahar, and the British forces are acting on the defensive. Lon’do.v, August 18th. In the House of Commons to day Mr W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, denounced the wickedness and cowardice shown by Mr Dillon in his seditious speech at Kildare, but said he had no intention of prosecuting him.

The wool sales opened with prices of from a halfpenny to a penny lower than the last sales. On the following day 10,600 bales were offered, the tone of the market showing a better demand, and prices were firmly maintained.

London, August 19th. The Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, lias started suddenly for Ireland. His mission, however, is not known. Calcutta, August 18th. News comes to hand that the citadel at Candahar is invested on three sides by Ayoub Khan’s army. General Stewart reports that he has reached Gundamuk with the British force which was left at Cabal after General Roberts’ departure for Candahar, and that the evacuation of Cahul is now completed. (From the Melbourne Dailies ) London, August 13th.

An express train from London to Scotland, while travelling at full speed, fell down a high embankment at Berwick. The driver of the engine and two servants were killed. The Baroness Burdctt Cents has notified to the Queen her intention to marry Mr Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, the Conservative member for Eye, who is aged thirty-two Her Majesty, and also the brother of Mr Bartlett, without objecting to the Baroness Burdett Coutts’s intention, have disapproved of the proposed inairiage, and immense pressure is being brought in the highest circles to dissuade her ladyship from a marriage by which sho would lose half her present income.

Six men Lave been arrested for the outrage in Cork harbour, in which several supposed Fenians in boats seized a vessel and carried of! several cases of rifles from ber.

Russia Las lately made fresh overtures to France, which have lieen declined.

It is stated that Count Von Moltke openly talks of coining war. The convict Jean Luie, alias Langren, who in 1874 was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude jf or 'perjury committed in connection with the Tiehborne trial, has been released from prison. August 16ih. It now transpires that Mr Forster, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, has gone to that country with the object of inquiring whether coercive measures are necessary for the suppression of the disorder now prevailing there. August 20th. Preparations are being made for numerous land agitation meetings to be hid throughout Ireland on Sunday next. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,000,000 quarters. Berlin, August 19th. Serious storms and floods in Prussia have caused Great damage, and to a large extent destroyed the growing crops. Calcutta, August 19th. A report comes to hand that Ayoub Khan sent a strong force to attack the Sherpur gate of the citadel at Candahar, and heavy firing between the British troops and the enemy Was maintained from morning to evening. The British loss is said to have been trilling.