REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1038, 28 January 1880, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, January 21. Five Per Cent New Zealand Loan, 103. Distress throughout Ireland is increasing, and universal appeals for help being made. January 26. With reference to the speech of the First Lord of the Admiralty at Sutton last week it now, transpires that it is proposed that the British troops in Afghanistan shall retire from Cabul to Jellalabad, and that that the appointment of a British envoy at Cabul will probably be waived. The public belief in the rumor circu'abed, that frontier provinces would be formed between the Khyber and the Cumim, is stretightened now the above facts have transpired. New York, January 26. Parnell, the Irish agitator, made a violent speech to-day, in which he denounced the formation of Irish lelief funds, because they would not afford aid to rent defaulters. The Litter, he said, claimed a separate nationality, anu the landlords uniat therefore give way. St. Petersburg, January 21. The Russian Government give official denial to the rumored Russian defeat at, and abandonment of Ichikislar. January 26. A serious deficiency in the Russian wheat crop and the export of corn having so largely decreased, the expediency of importation of grain has been discussed. Vienna, January 21. Austria is co-operating with the Alelbourne Exhibition Commissioners. A largo number of Austrian exhibitors left, for Melbourne on Saturday, Obituary ;—Captain Peatman, of P. and O. steamer Tanjore. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, January 27. The date on which the adjournment and dissolution of the Assembly will take place is still uncertain, owing to the slow progress which is beiug made with the Consideration cf the Estimates. Sydney, January 27. A man named Gyuithard, aged 26 has surrendered himself to the police at Yass, stating that in January 1878, while he was chemist at Everton, he poisoned his w.fe with prussic acid, weighted the body, and threw it into the Mersey. He afterwards emigrated to Australia, and now asserts he is wretched, and sees the vision of his wife nightly. Arrived—Arawata, from Auckland.