CABLEGRAMS.
LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (SPKetAE. tt> PREW iWtAUOS.) Pemth, March 12. The town of Syregeden, in .Hungary, is inundated. There has been great loss of life.. A thousand families have been rendered homeless. (RENTERS'TOtEHRAJr. per press.vwxriATtos.y LON'do.Y, March l'J. The floods utterly destroyed Syrejjeden in llnngary. The mortality is appalling. The otphaoage was taid in ruins, burying the inmates. DIRECT AI'STRAMAX NEWS. (•RKCntRSI"tttmoMM, PRR PBSSW ASHtM'fATIOS) MrxßWßse, ilareh 13. At the M»cri»ia «f Jf»>rma»hy» fevee yesterday 1300 peopte were presented. Apeilaioe, March IS. The steamer John Elder has arrived fronv London, and firings a littfc later news. It is expected that the Left party in the French Chamber of Deputies will resolve- to impeaelt the Bn»g!te-F»mrt«n Ministry fcefwre- Mac)Wwtt resigns. AH the Capw news i» anti«ipat«»! except that the Transvaal people demand independence. Stp-XET, March 13. A banq.net was given t»» Governor Robinson by the members of the I'ttion Club last night. The Assembly passed a ftill imposing a poll-tax of LI otv Chinese. Tim steamer Brisbane arrived at Port Darwin with Chinese. She reports that another thousand ate now on their way, to arrive in about 10 days. The Ensby has arrived at Newaastte, itnd the Kotorua at Melourne. March 14. The Legislative Assembly hist night, by ■lt to 2, passed a farewell address to his Excellency Governor Heruttles liobinson, expressing approval of his administration uf the Government of New South Wales. (sPRHtAt- TW PKBSS «MO4tATt»K.) At>Et,Atc>E. March 13. The John Elder has arrived with Cape papers to the 22nd February. The destruction of the head camp- at, Tsaftdhatwana was caused through the absenee of the cavalry and the mismanagement of the forces. which consisted of eight hundred Europeans. They had plenty of ammunition and artillery, and should have been entrenched when tha twenty thonsatvd Zulus attacked then*.. The natives are now agitated, and a decisive' snceess is necessary to establish white- supremacy. ShrwffcY, March 13. The coal interests are jeopardised. Two thousand miners met at .Newcastle, ami unanimously supported the associated collieries scheme, which the non-associates ridicule*
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 908, 14 March 1879, Page 2
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