REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 736, 7 February 1879, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. London, February ft. The Army Estimates now show a decrease.

February 4. The Cjjar is seriously unwell with asthma. Genetal Pratt is dead. One hundred and fiity Austrian* exhibit, at ihe Sydney Inhibition.

The Colonial Office Ims undertaken the conveyance of British works out to Sydney. An Austin-German T/reaty has hp«n concluded a'-orogating the clause of r.| ie Treaty <>f Prague, v/hich provides for the retroeeasi in of North Srhb^vig. Tlie French Ministry is as follow* > — Lepere, Ag.ietit.lure and Ooi.inn rce; Leon Say- 1 , Finance ; Waddingt n, Foreign affairs and Fre-ddeiH of' the Council of Ministers; Mareer Interior and Public Worship ; Admiral .Jour-(p-irorv, Marine and Colonic-'; Fiegeient* Public Works; Grceohy, Interim War ; Ferjx,, Ei In cation.

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. ?.(KMsoi:n.\E, Feb! nary o. Hot and dry every win--! e. Sukne.s, prevalent among chilhren, ;md an epidemic feared. Arrived Albion, from Wellington. Michie resigns the Aiient-Gencrn!-ship, and returns to Victoria in three months.

AnKb.Aini:, February ?>. The Government contracts in future include a proviso against the employment of Chinese. Bosh h'-es ai-o prevalent. Wlieit and flair have a downward tendency. [TprCoiintry deliveries are on an average. One Hi m purchased a hundred thousand bij h' Is \ ,st week. Fifteen parties are oiit r;ib >it de.-tiov-ing. SydKkV, February .1 Wanghriieim, public in, is ins-dvent. The schedules alleges the. cause as l>eing the outlay of money in buying a Government appointment from a man named Suners. This is corroborative of Mr M'llhone's eharees agiinst M. Garrett,, fonHerlv Minister of L" • ds. Tlie hading Chineg • m-rrh-.nt { t rviowed the. Colonial Secretary, and ollered thejr co-operafion to suppress the vii;e and iniinoralitv of tlie lower ('i|i:nsi\ Si- f{. Paikes pro mined to Con u!t, the iuspeci.oi.(Je.neral, and disci limeil joining In indiscriminate attacks on the Chine-e characMn Neither Russia nor the Spanish Colonies will bo repi'sented at our Exhi itiou The firmer wants time, and the iatn ! « js in linaitciul embarrasamen.. Sir liry;. ; O'Lutghleu, Acting Pre-tJit.-r, in a speech .-uted lie hopal the

Prinoe of Wales would open the Exhibition. The work of clearing the site has Commenced. A Times telegram states there ia a civil war in Gabul, and that Yakoob Khan is bombarding portion of the city. Brisbane, February &. Shaw, Registrar of the Supreme Court, has resigned. A genrteman named FTyrst died of lockjaw, eauaed by a bushman's whip cutting the eyeball.