LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1493, 28 November 1878, Page 2

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

BY SUBMARINE CABLE. ABANDONMENT OF JELLALABAD. THE AFGHANS IN RETREAT. [special to globe.] \ London. November 26. The Khyberees have risen against the 1 Ameer. Jellalabad is abandoned, and the Afghans ' are Hying to Cabul. , [reuter's telegrams to press agency.J i Calcutta, November 26. Dakkah was occupied unopposed. The headmen of the Kurd and Khyber villages are offering their services. Supplies arrived from [ all sides. The native contingent will shortly i rendezvous at Lahore, when their future destination will be settled. 1 The Maharajah of Cashmere is anxious to . send a contingent with the invading army, i but it is considered of great service if he will ' watch the Afghan border contiguous to his frontier. ', The AH Muejid prisoners were taken to . Peshawur. The rank and file will probably 1 be dismissed, and the officers treated according to the custom of European warfare. I AUSTRALIA. FURTHER MASSACRES IN NEW CALEDONIA. [reuter's telegrams to the press AGENCY.] i Sydney, November 27. The strike continues in Sydney, Brisbane, and Newcastle unabated. The efforts at mediation failed. Three Chinese crews are now discharging and loading the company's vessels. 1 Latest New Caledonian advices bring accounts of a terrible massacre of eleven whites at the mouth of the River Poya, being the members of a party engaged in the carriage of provisions to the troops. The bodies were found cut up and cooked. Sailors searching the River Parey were fired upon by the rebels. A further massacre is reported, of which particulars are wanting. A large number of troops arrived at Noumea during the month. Adelaide, November 27. The Council rejected the Land Property Tax Bill. The Aesembly read the Loan Bill a third time. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [PER PRESS AGENCY.] Auckland, November 27. Arrived Missionary schooner Southern Cross, from the Islands. The captain reports that improvement is visible in the attitude of the Natives towards the missionaries, who are well received almost everywhere. The vessel has been eight months out, and reports that affairs are proceeding satisfactorily at the mission ttations. Mr Brett, the Mayor, presented a silver cup to the Amateur Athletic Club. Sarah Monk, who attempted suicide, is pronounced of unsound mini. Father Hennebery to-day held a service for married women, and in the course of his sermon strongly denounced Mrs Besant's book " Fruits of Philosophy." Considerable interest was exhibited ha the mayoralty election to-day, which resulted as follows :—Peacock, 462 ; Coegrave, 430. Mr Peacock was therefore returned. Patea, November 27. Kimber Bent, a deserter from the 56th Regiment 23 years ago, and who has ever since lived with the Maoris, about 40 miles up the Patea River, and up till Monday had not been seen by any JGui-opeau since he deserted, was interviewed by a Patea resident, and said he intended to lay his case before the Government, as he was anxious now to go back to his native country (America). Bent deserted after being flogged, and in 1866 was believed to have shot Lieut.Colonel Hassnrd in an engagement near Hawea, and a large reward was offered for his capture. The Maoris treat him as a slave and say he was never allowed to carry arms. He has kept a diary the whole time of his absence from civilisation. Wellington, November 27. Tho mayoralty contest to-day excited more interest than ha,) been shown on any similar occasion. Each candidate had a committee, energetic, well acquainted with the town, and abundantly provided with cabs, which plied incessantly. The difficulty anticipated from the inconvenience of the booths seemed to be obviated by electors mainly polling early, for in the latter hours of the afternoon there was little or no crush. The poll was not declared till 7.20 p.m., the following being the figures given : Dransfield, 740; Hutchison, 737. Good order nuii general sobriety marked the day's proceedings. The official declaration is not yet made. The ballot papers will be again counted to-uwht. The Court of Appeal sat again to-day. The point reserved in the ease Regiua v Anderson was argued. Anderson was in partnership with another man as contractor in Napier, and managed tho business of the partnership at a salary of £4 a week. A jury found that he had ' embezzled a cheque for .£l5O, the property of ' the firm. Tho point arose as to whether a ' charge of embezzlement couid lie, as tiie law ' contemplated an offence committed l>y a servant, ] it being contended that Anderson was not a 1 servant but a master. After hearing the Attorney- ( General, the Court decided that under the Larceny | Act of 1870 the conviction must lie sustained. [ In Kegina v Pain, the defendant had been found guilty of embezzlii'g a cheque, the property of * the Waimat Road Board, to which he was the clerk. It was a contractor's deposit cheque, and counsel for defend',ut contended that, as it t did not form part of the revenue of r.tes given a to the Board by the Act under which it was 'j constituted, the cheque could not be the property e of the Board. r l her fort; the indictment was i, bad. The Court decided that it was not necessary that the title of the person to whmi the i mon.''y was being conveyed when embezzled should be substantiated in order to support an a indictment. The crime consisted in the fact Y of a person in a fiduciary position getting ' l money which was intended to go through him a to the master or employer, and instead of per- f<

forming ttat duty appropriating the money to his own use. The conviction, therefore, was affirmed. Ashbubton, November 27. A man named William Gii< s, a wood carter, was killed, accidentally it is supposed, by the whenl of his dray at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Ash burton. The butchers h°re have formed themselves into a novel combination, to cull for no orders and to supply meat only at their shops, and for cash alone. Dunedin, November 27. The Mayoral election for Dunedin resulted in the return of Mr H J Walter by a majority of 273 over Mr H. S. Fish. The numbers were, Waiter. 854; Fish. 58 . For South Dunedin, Mr Hodges was returned over Mr Maloney. Invercargill, November 27. This moraine:. at the Prince of Wales Hotel, the cook, a Chinaman, whilst at work in the kitchen, dropped dead of heart disease. The Hon. Mr Fisher visited the pier to-day with the Mayor. The latter mentioned the inexplicable delay that has occurred, owing to the railway siding which had been finished more than eight weeks. Mr Fisher said it was not in hi* department, but he would bring the matter under the notice of the Minister of Works. He also recognised the necessity of a siding from the hilly ground north of the jetty to the crescent.