REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1018, 6 January 1880, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

[NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, January 3. The Oriebt stearaey Garonne left Plymouth for Australia yesterday. Galvanised iron is quoted in the Loudon market at £22 pounds per ton. Messrs Parnell and Main, the Home Riile agitators, have gone to New York. ...

■Jamiary 4. Mr Parnell’s Visit to America is made chiefly for the object of making speeches Appealing for the relief of the distress existing in Ireland.

St. Petersburg, January 3,

There has beeen an extensive discovery of Nihilists iii the rinks of the Russian army, and the penalty for Nihilists in the army Reserve has been consequently largely increased.

Constantinople, January 3,

The difficulty between the Porte and the British Ambassador has been compromised, arid a resumption of their relations will probably take place today* . .... Paris, January 3. M. Freycint, the President of the French Council of Ministers, and Price Hohenlohe, the German Ambassador in the city, had an interview today, at which friendly assurances regarding the policy of France and Germany were exchanged. Hong Kong, December 27.

A hurricane recently passed over Zeblu, doing considerable damage to the shipping. The Maria, a French barque, lying there with 2015 bales of hemp for Melbourne, was totally dismasted, and driven ashore on the rocks and now lies in a bad position, with six feet of water in the hold.