REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 765, 13 March 1879, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

: [NEW ZEALAND PBESS ASSOCIATION;] THE KAFFIR WAR. V London, March 10. According to -the 'latest Cape news, the general situation of Natal is unchanged. Colonel Pearson has repulsed an attack by a large number of Zulus on his position at Ekowe. The enemy waß defeated with enormous loss. The hostile attitude of the native tribes in the Transvaal causes great anxiety.

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. London, March 11. Board of Trade returns of exports for last mouth continue very unfavourable. The Polytechnic has beeii lo'tally burned.

In consequence of the difficulty in the economic settlement of Cuba, the Spanish Ministry has resigned, and a new Ministry frmed by Canibos. Wheat, |d' highei ; tallow, £d lower. A treaty has beon concluded between Germany and Samoa. The text of the treaty is kept a secret Land settlement is postponed, and position unchanged by the treaty. ■ Civil war is imminent. <

Berry has written a letter to the Banks stating the balance of the loan will not be offered for 18 months. In the House of Commons this evening the GhancellOr of the Exchequer, replying to: a question; said that ith& Indian Government was on the eve of: an active exchange of communication with Yakoub Khan, even if they had not already commenced. Numerous British manufacturers are applying for space in the Melbourne exhibition; and the Belgian, Dutch, and French Governments are preparing to be represented there. '• Paris, March 10. ;

Thf French Chamber of Deputies will probably reject the motion for the impwichuifut of the Biogile. Ministry .bn-c-nise 'Marshall MacMahon dmimnds that he shall t»e included in. the impeachment if the motion be .carried. -,.'■' ' March 11. The report of the ChimWt of Depu tier* C liiiniitee demands the inipeYiehment of lilifi Brojjilf.floclieoiit (!a.liinet. The (i<>v riimcul i- (use to ~c :e|j'.- the conclusion of the Cli -miner's couiiuittee. Alkxandhia, March 11. A ii.-w Kgyptam Ministry has been

formed under the Presidency of Prince Tewtik, heriditary Prince of Egypt. The portfolios of Finance and Works are unchanged. Constantinople, March 11. The British ironclad squadron returns to Besika Bay in a few days. The Turkish troops have reKiccupied Adrianople. St. Petersburg, March 11. A- Russian official statement has been published that the plague has disapeared at Astrachan. [special.] London, March 11. The Turkish troops have attacked the Greek Band who recently destroyed a village iu Thessaly. Only a few Greeks escaped. . Ross defeated Emmet in the Thames Sculling Match. The British corvette Thetis has been burned at Plymouth. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS, : ■' ; :; ' MELBorRNE, March 6. Mr B»rry telegraphs he has decided to issue £3.ooo,ooo <st 93,.including interest. He adds that the Right Honorable Hugh C.. E. Childers, formerly the First Lord of the' Admiralty, will probably accept the post of Agent* General for Victoria iu London, without salary. The Secretary of State has not yet replied to the EmbafisyVpropoaals.