TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1497, 3 December 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS.

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. The War in Afghanistan. British Reverses. More International Conspiracies. Calcutta, December 2. In a severe engagement with the Afghans the British were at first forced to retreat, but were eventually victorious. The Internationalists are again active. An attempt was made to assassinate Tizza, the Hungarian State Treasurer, at the convocation of delegates at Pesth. [special to the pbess agency.] London, November 30. Considerable diplomatic correspondence which recently passed between the British and Russian Governments in reference to Russian proceedings in Central Asia, has been issued from the Foreign Office to-day. It shows that in the reply to the first despatch of Lord Salisbury, asking for explanations, the Russian Chancellor denied that any formally accredited mission had been sent to Cabul, This was subsequently explained in the manner previously telegraphed—namely, as being an act of courtesy on the part of Kauffman, Go-vernor-General of Turkestan. London, December 2. Mr Gladstone, addressing his constituents at Greenwich, refuted the accusation against the Secretary of State for India that the late Cabinet was responsible for the Afghan difficulties, or that any action of the Liberals caused the estrangements between the Ameer and our Government, He also added that the war was unjust. AUSTRALIAN. [special to “globe.”] Safety of the You Yangs. Sydney, December 3. The You Yangs has arrived. She was delayed by a storm. The Government are now asking Parliament for a subsidy of £50,000 for the proposed exhibition. Fo*ey and Newton, after seventy minutes of a severe and undecided contest, were interfered with by the pjice. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS, [pee press agency.] Dunedin, December 3. The “ Morning Herald” po nts out a blunder in the Administration Act, 1878. The omission of the word “illegitimate” before tlje word

“ female” in the 36th clause of the Act, has the j effect of transferring the property of any female who dies intestate, and without issue, to her mother, or to the heirs of her mother. Messrs Keith Ramsay and James Mills have been elected members of the Harbor Board without opposition. Another accident happened on the Northern railway, near Palmerston, yesterday. A goods train from Oamaru, consisting of several trucks, was thrown off the line. The train was proceeding at a slow rate, but there is a sharp curve where the accident happened. Wellington, December 3. The inspector of kerosene for the Corporation has been testing several consignments of kerosene belonging to different merchants, and out of 1550 cases he found not more than twentyfive or thirty were what he considered perfectly safe for household purposes, the flashing point being from 90 to 100 degrees. [from the own correspondents.] Dunedin, December 3. The “Star” mentions that Major Weldon goes to Canterbury, vice Superintendent Broham, who is to be transferred to Dunedin. Wellington, December 3. Arrangements are in progress between the postal authorities and the Union Steamship Co. to accelerate the delivery of the San Francisco mail on the New Zealand coast by one clear day. All the places South of Napier, also, will be enabled to despatch the outward mails a day later than at present by sending them by the steamer at Manakau. The Stormbird, just returned from the wreck of th * Southminster, reports that the wreck has thirteen feet water alongside. The vessel is barely a quarter of a mile from the shore. Nothing is being done to save the cargo. The crew are still in tents ashore awaiting orders. The captain is at Kekerangu telegraph station. The sails are not even furled. Boardman, of the South British Co. took posses don of the wreck, and placed a crew of six men in charge whom he took down specially. The weather is now fine and the sea smooth, but on the first south-easter the ship must break up. Boardman asserts the South British loss will not exceed £IOOO.