REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 944, 9 October 1879, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PI!ESS ASSOCIATION.]

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN.

London, October. 2. At the Liberal fete at CambridgeTalfourd made a brilliant altack ou the Government.

October 3. The Sultan is reported to be desirous of an alliance with Austria. . Agrarian outvie;; are ou the increase

The Bank of ;-?onth Australia has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, for the half-year, and carried forward £7677. Bombay, October 4.

Shuturgardan was unsuccessfully attacked by the Independent tribes from the southward. The Indian Government; are despatching reiuforcineuts.

[sP'EciAfc TO THE GLOBE.] London- (Undated,) The Irish landlords defy their tenants' threats. The Govet'urtietlt is concerting vigorous measures.

(Via Suf»z.) Loxdon, (Uudated.j. A scandal in print Has been suppressed saying that the Prince of Wales, Lords Londesborongh and Lons- 1 dale are' the correspondents in a divorce suit against Mrs Laugtry, the fashionable beauty. Mr George Augustus Sala caines to Australia as a recognised represents tive of the Euglish Press. Agricultural estimates stay that -owing to the weather the will result a loss to the United Kingdom of sixty r three millions, or three-fourths of the revenue of the country, namely, twenty-eight millions worth df cereals and pulse crops', fifteen millions worth of potatoes, fifteen millions worth of grass, and one millioTi worth of hop's': The effect is temporarily disastrous. " LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS; Sydxey, October i< . The Trades Union Cdngre'ss meets on the 6th. The spiricualrats of Sydney sirid Mel--bourne deuey the truth of the alleged American discovery that Slade has b'emi proved to be a woman. October 6, The Charlotte Andrew, brig, is a tofa! wreck at Card well. She is insured in the New Zealand office.