REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 730, 31 January 1879, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

THE AFGHAN WAR.

London (undated). The fortress of Katat-i-ghdzi, the only important stronghold between British and Cabul, is now occupied by the British.

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, January 29. Tim Board has bsen appointed to inquire in Weiberg’s escape. Much excitement prevails respecting the Collins street abortion case. Surgeon Crooke appears to have acted very suspiciously; ■ A man has been admitted to the Hospital almost pulseless after eating a veal dinner in a Bourke street restaurant.

The Arawata takes the English mail his morning.

Sydney, January 29. Rush has challenged Lay cock to scull him for £2OO.

Nineteen magistrates refused to transfer a license to a new pnblichouse near M‘Gibbon’s Chaj>el. The minority of two signed the certificate, and harried to the Treasury for endorsement. The majority raced them, and the Treasurer deliberates.

Sir H. Robinson has received by the mail his commission as Governor of New Zealand. He will probably leave at the end of February. Montgomery has been sentenced to five year* imprisonment for the'robbery at the Government House. The Sapphire .sails for Auckland on Saturday.

January. 30. The Chinese Bill empowers the Government to levy ,£lO pet head on every Chinese lauding. In the event of .nonpayment, the Captain of the vessel is liable to a penalty of £25, and forfiture of his vessel. The report of the Governor having received his comraison as Governor of New Zealand is premature. His depaiture is hot defi 'Oelv fixed. Sailed : Zealandia»

Qift£&NSLANi>| January 29: __ 'The pchooner Earl, froth San Francisco, mi .arrived at 'Obokto wo. Hea%.gaiesare reported in .the China Sea, with severe storms. The Venice and Madagascar are re|iorted lost.- The latter is 50' dayß : ’’ottt from Saigon. 5 1 Fears-are-entertaind--th«t-theship Ocean will not teach Hong Kong safely, as she was seriously damaged when .she went, ashore at-ThUraduy la-. land. r . , .. . . ;

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

The following additional Suez-mail news, received by cable via Melbourne, appear in the Lyttelton Times I

Melbourne, January 25, The following is a summary uii to Deo. 30:

y The weather is intensely cold/ and its severity has greatly increased the wide-spread-distress in England and Scotland, owing to the almost complete stagnation of trade in the iron and coal manufacturing districts. The distress in Sheffield is almost unparalleled, and gloomy accounts come from Manchester, Birmingham, Wigan, Wolverhampton, Liverpool, Plymouth, Bristol, Dundee, Glasgow, Preston, and the {lottery districts. A Belief Committee has formed, but it is unable to cope with the calamity. The Indian Council has decided to increase the army by 15,000. The interest in the forthcoming Exhibition is very grest, and Colonial topics are receiving much attention. Lord Beaconsfield, replying, to a deputation from California, declared that the Berlin Treaty ensured . the pacification of Europe. The treaty was an instrument which would be maintained and executed,. /Respecting Cyprus, he stated that every condition, on account of which it had been occupied, had been entirely fulfilled. The harbour of Famagusta had; been* {improved, and "jould afford accbinmodatiou to the entile Mediterranean fleet i ::

Intense sympathy is felt for r the Queen, Oh account of the 1 death of her daughter. Lord Beaconsfit-kV, moving an address of condideuce, said - that the death, of the Princess was wonderfully pifejus, because it was her lot to break to her son the news of tlie death of his youngest sister. The boy was over* come with grief, and, elapsed in his mother's arms, received the kiss of death* ' ' ‘ ’