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Ti.- ♦* i « J-ondow, Sept. 8. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,700,000 quarters At the wool sales to-day, 6,308 bales were Catalogued. Tbe tone of the market is firmer. The Harhetz Vincent, bound from London to Adelaide, has put back, having taken fire. The fire has been extinguished. Sir* Stafford Nortbcote, in a speech supSorting the candidature of his son for Exeter, misted npon the maintenance of unity between England and the Coloniea. He deeply deplored the massacre at Cabul, and stated that Major Cavagnari died nobly at his post, and his death was a serious loss tothe nation. _. , a Bombay, September 9. £he defence of the British Residency at Cabul was stubborn, and attended with great loss to the attacking party. An unsuccessful
attempt was made by the Cabulese to storm tbe building, and they finally fired the doorway and swarmed in and killed the defenders. The Governor of Candahar has expressed his devotion to the British. Military preparations are being rapidly pushed forward.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 206, 11 September 1879, Page 2
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