TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1514, 23 December 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CABLE NEWS.

SPECIAL TO THE QLOSK

London, December 21. Jellalabad has been occupied. The Afghans are in precipitate retreat. The Ameer appointed Yakob Khand as Regent, and fled to Turkestan. Penia rejected the proffered Afghan alliance. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS TO PRESS AGENCY.] London, December 20. Belgium exhibits largely at Sydney. The exhibition arrangements for Italy and Q-er-many are progressing favorably. London, December 21. The committee of the London Stock Exchange have expelled four members and suspended two others, for unfair dealing in Bank shares. London, December 21. The marriage of the Duke of Cumberland with Princess Thyra was celebrated to-day. Bombay, December 21. It is stated on good authority that the Ameer left Caboul for Turkistan in company with the returning officers of the Russian mission. The troops are deserting Yakob Khan. December 21 (night). An official despatch just received fully confirms the statement of the flight of the Ameer into Turkestan, leaving his son Yakob Khan in power. AUSTRALIA. [special to “globe.”] Sydney, December 23. The conditions of the strike are turning against the Company. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. [pee peess agency.] Napiek, December 23. The chief Karatiana Takamoana has been ill lately, and his malady seems to have affected his head. Yesterday afternoon he was so violent that he had to be put into a straight waistcoat. He was stopping at the Criterion Hotel, and the noise he made attracted a large crowd outside the hotel. Other quarters were provided for him last evening, to which he was removed. The men of" “ Te Wananga,” a newspaper, have been dismissed and the editor’s services dispensed with. It is variously stated that this is preliminary to new arrangements, or to the ceasing of the publication. To-day, the burgesses of Napier are polling on the question whether the loan of *£70,000 shall be raised to consolidate the old loans and provide for drainage and sewerage. Dunedin, December 23. A meeting of master tailors has been hold to consider the demands of the men for an increase of wages. As those were of a complicated character" it was resolved to consider them at another meeting. A meeting of the amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners Society was held on Saturday evening, when the following resolution was carried —“That wo view with alarm the continued influx of Chinese, and will heartily cooperate with our followmcn in Wellington to put a stop to it, and that *£so money head should beimposed on all captains bringing Chinese to New Zealand.”